 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 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. 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, the result of an article 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, and we drill down on why and what could help this often overlooked group succeed.
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Liz Willen, Editor
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