The Seattle Times – John Higgins
“The movement to make social and emotional skills as important to a child’s education as reading, math and science is gaining ground, according to a national survey of educators published by the newsweekly Education Week, a national weekly newspaper. About two-thirds of the 562 teachers and administrators who answered the online survey said that social and emotional learning is “very important” to student achievement, up from 54 percent who answered the same question a year ago, according to Education Week’s research center, which conducted the survey.”(more)