technology to monitor students’ feelings is sparking privacy concerns, reports Benjamin Herold on Education Week. No kidding. All school...

When a parent toured her 5-year-old daughter’s future kindergarten near Boston, she noticed a poem on the board set to the lyrics of ...

Children — and their parents and teachers face a “crisis of self-regulation,” argues Katherine Reynolds Lewis in The Good News About Bad...

Colorado is investing in school counselors to improve success rates for low-income students reports Hechinger’s Sarah Gonser. As of 2016,...

At a Columbus, Ohio school in a high-poverty neighborhood, teachers use different strategies to help children learn to calm themselves,...

Today, the anniversary of the Columbine massacre, students are being urged to walk out of school to protest school shootings, register...

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is under pressure to rescind — or to preserve — what’s known as the “Obama-era guidance” on school...

Teachers chart their relationships with students at a high-poverty North Carolina school, reports Lisa Philip on WUNC. Pattillo Middle...

Two Chicago charter schools are closing the achievement gap for low-income, black children, according to a new book, The Ambitious...

Education folks are sick of hearing about grit: It’s the Finland of social-emotional traits. No more nose to the grindstone, writes Olga...

Feelings are part of the curriculum for young children in some New York City schools, reports Richard Schiffman in the New York Times....

Schools should ban best friends, writes psychologist Barbara Greenberg in U.S. News. Besties are “exclusionary.” Restricting exclusive...

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...