Social emotional learning — lessons in soft skills like listening to people you disagree with or calming yourself down before a test — has become a flashpoint in the culture wars. The conservative ...

Social-emotional learning has been swept up in bitter political fights over what should be taught in schools as some critics—including some high-profile conservative activist groups like Moms for ...

After a big boost during the pandemic, the emphasis on social-emotional learning in middle and high school is tapering off, according to a recent survey of educators by the EdWeek Research Center.

First it was Common Core. Then Critical Race Theory. Now, social and emotional learning. That’s the latest education jargon term to leave academic circles and fuel a culture-war controversy over what ...

Principal Courtney Lyons explain to directors how Fayette Central School’s social-emotional learning program helps students ...

Preschool teacher-tested strategies for turning outdoor play into adventurous social and emotional lessons—no matter the ...

In Jill Staton’s fifth grade class, the videos playing on the classroom screen during social-emotional learning time are ones she and the students sometimes call “cringey.” Cartoon drawings of skin, ...

The subtitle of Abigail Shrier’s bestselling Bad Therapy is a more helpful guide to the book’s contents than its title: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up. The book is not mainly about “therapy,” at least ...

On Father’s Day I took my kids to see "Inside Out 2." After the movie, when I asked them what they thought, they turned the question on me: “What did you learn?” This made me realize they had serious ...