Education Next – Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Frederick Hess
“Social and emotional learning (SEL) has caught a sizable wave in American K–12 education. Googling the phrase will get more than 400 million hits. It’s the focus of a high-profile Aspen Institute national commission that issued its final report earlier this year [1] and of innumerable policy powwows, professional development programs, and philanthropic initiatives. It has its own advocacy group, the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), based in Chicago with a 33-member staff and more than 20 blue-ribbon funders.” (more)