AL.com’s Education Lab team is supported by individual donors and grants. Learn more about our work and sign up for our newsletter. Experts say that as the pandemic continues, schools are facing more ...

Immerse yourself in the world of social-emotional learning, and one thing quickly becomes clear: What, exactly, social-emotional learning is can be hard to pin down, and people often resort to ...

On a recent morning at School 30 in Yonkers, Afsaneh Parandian held a Clifford the Big Red Dog puppet up to her class of pre-K students and posed a question: “What sort of feelings are there?” Her ...

CINCINNATI – A study published this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found one-third of high school students experienced poor mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic – an ...

Artificial intelligence is poised to dramatically influence how kids develop their sense of self and interact with one another, their teachers, their families, and the broader world. And this means ...

People routinely think of STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math) and Social-Emotional Learning as two very separate subjects. Fractions over here, mindfulness over there. However, there are many ...

When challenging student behavior arises, the instinct in many schools is to turn to discipline: assigning detention, suspension, or removal from class. But John Gasko, chief well-being officer at ...

Teacher Jamalia Sheets watches a child model the emotion “surprised” during an activity in the infant classroom at Ellis Early Learning. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...

California’s Commission on Teacher Credentialing approved long-awaited revised Standards for the Teaching Profession on Thursday that emphasize culturally responsive teaching, social-emotional ...

Last Friday, Florida’s Department of Education — which, along with Gov. Ron DeSantis, has been setting the agenda for conservative attacks on education for the last two years — announced that it had ...