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Report: Can SEL Solve School Inequity?
Social-emotional learning (SEL) experts espouse the approach’s ability to improve student performance and behavior. But can SEL also boost equity i...

Students Find Their Voice During Read Across America
It’s Read Across America week. In classrooms across the country, students, teachers, and special guests are celebrating the fun and importance of r...

Screen Time Warnings: Addressing Child Technology Use in Schools
The time of ”no phones in class” may be coming to an end. Despite lingering concerns among some educators that smartphones and other portable comm...

SEL as Culture: Nashville Schools Go Beyond Strategy
Once considered an experimental approach by some, many educators and school leaders are now looking to social-emotional learning as a means to tran...

Study: More Screen Time Linked to Increased Teen Depression
Is social media harming our children? It’s a question researchers, educators, and parents alike have been wrestling with since our cultural obsessi...

Essential Report: Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) a Must-Have for Schools
Social and emotional skills don’t just aid learning, they are inextricably linked to student success, a new study finds. The Aspen Institute’s Nati...

Student Positivity: Key to Better School Climate?
An expanding wealth of research draws a bright line between student performance and school climate. One study, released last year by the U.S Educat...

Standardized Testing Decline: Embracing Community Success Measures
Over the past decade, there hasn’t been much that policymakers and others advocating for America’s K-12 education system could easily agree on. Wit...

When it Comes to Parent Involvement, Income Matters
Getting Parents Involved in Education Anyone who’s ever worked in schools knows that parents involved in education are key to student success. Educ...

Study: Mixed Feelings Among Parents on Later School Start Times
As a new school year kicks off, students across the country are readjusting to early-morning start times. I’ve been out of high school for nearly 1...