U.S. schoolchildren once were told to emulate “Honest” Abe Lincoln and George Washington, who ” could not tell a lie.” Traditional...

Hechinger’s Lillian Mongeau looks at a Washington state high school’s attempt to provide social and academic support for failing...

“The heart of our job as teachers is to know and honor children’s full selves,” writes Justin Minkel, who teaches first- and...

In “Schools Are Still Peddling the Self-Esteem Hoax,” Fordham’s Checker Finn criticizes social and emotional learning as another fad....

“Last-chance” schools are providing alternatives to troubled students, writes Natalie Gross for the Hechinger Report. Many use...

A Manhattan charter schools that serves the neediest teens — many of them homeless — is likely to exceed the the city’s overall...

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan will spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year to fund “whole-child...

Unstable parenting, poverty, a violent environment and other “adverse childhood experiences” contribute to “toxic stress” that impairs...

Social-emotional learning is catching on across the country, reports Victoria Clayton in The Atlantic. She defines SEL as “a systematic,...

Mirror, mirror on the wall, I can’t see myself at all. Girls can’t check their hair, lipstick, eyeliner or acne concealer in bathrooms at...