Thousands of Bay Area teenagers have attended four-day camps that claim to teach empathy and leadership by screaming insults and enacting bigotry, reports Karen de Sa in the San Francisco Chronicle. Here’s Camp Diversity, which follows what’s known as the “Anytown” model: In a campground hall deep in the Santa Cruz Mountains, 55 teenagers have been ordered to separate by race, ethnicity and sexual orientation. By groups, the children of Silicon Valley engineers and attorneys,

Social-emotional learning is catching on across the country, reports Victoria Clayton in The Atlantic. She defines SEL as “a systematic, evidence-based approach to teaching kids how to achieve goals, understand and manage emotions, build empathy, forge relationships, and make responsible decisions.” The Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) “is working with 10 large districts —including Anchorage, Alaska;  Austin; Chicago; Cleveland; Nashville, Tenn