Jargon may have turned parents against social and emotional learning

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Liz Willen Dear reader,

Time and again in education, we’ve seen attempts at change and improvement hijacked by politics and misunderstanding. It seems that social and emotional learning ([link removed]) is now the latest focal point, for a number of reasons. In Utah, two moms alarmed by what they found in the curriculum caused a school district to cancel it, to the dismay of educators who found the curriculum helpful after brutal pandemic pain and isolation.

Further complications are arising from some of the jargon being used to introduce social and emotional education, our Future of Learning columnist Javeria Salman found ([link removed]) . Both of these articles in The Hechinger Report help explain and illuminate what SEL, as it is known, is and isn’t about.

Also this week, we are excited that changes may be coming to the way SUNY schools collect student debt, ([link removed]) the result of an article ([link removed]) by The Hechinger Report and The New York Times last September that brought many of SUNY’s punitive debt collection practices to light. We also have a new look at how student dads are doing when it comes to getting to and through college. Sadly, many men are quitting, ([link removed]) and we drill down on why and what could help this often overlooked group succeed.

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Liz Willen, Editor

Main Idea


** Social and emotional learning is the latest flashpoint in the education wars ([link removed])
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Educators say SEL is intended to help kids cope with problems and succeed in school, but angry parents don’t see it that way.
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** Jargon may have turned parents against social and emotional learning ([link removed])
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Whatever you do, experts say, ‘Do not call it social and emotional learning.’



** The end of ‘dark days’ for SUNY students in debt ([link removed])
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People with unpaid tuition bills at the State University of New York could see their burdens ease in the coming months.



** Largely unseen and unsupported, huge numbers of student fathers are quitting college ([link removed])
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Their high dropout rates are contributing to a big decline in the number of men who get degrees.



** PROOF POINTS: A smarter robo-grader ([link removed])
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But first you have to train them, and they aren’t useful for classroom teachers.



** Trying to give students in low-wage majors some extra skills they can cash in on ([link removed])
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A pilot program offers microcredentials that can help students find success after graduation.



** TEACHER VOICE: Why we are being driven straight out of our classrooms ([link removed])
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Cameras in classrooms and legislators monitoring what we teach is a disaster for our profession.



** OPINION: Our schools must tell a better and more complete story about our growing economic inequality ([link removed])
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We risk raising children without empathy for those with different backgrounds.



** OPINION: A family physician weighs in — We shouldn’t rush to eliminate school mask mandates ([link removed])
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Sure, we are all tired. But why gamble with the lives of our children when we know that masks reduce the spread of Covid?



** STUDENT VOICE: Virtual learning left my classmates and me burned out, but there are things schools can do to make it better for us ([link removed])
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We need more counselors, tutoring and safe areas for checking in.



** OPINION: Beyond masks and Zoom: A middle school principal finds no shortage of learning options ([link removed])
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These are tough times, but there are better ways to embrace the new normal.
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