What Predicts College Completion? High School GPA Beats SAT Score
Preston Cooper, writing for Forbes, has reviewed a new article by Matthew Chingos of the Urban Institute that finds high school GPA to be a better predictor of college completion …
Educators Reach Consensus on What It Takes to Integrate Social, Emotional, and Academic Development
The Aspen Institute National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development has released a report from leading educators describing the practices and principles that can make a new vision of …
Social and Emotional Learning: A Teacher’s-Eye View
In partnership with NoVo Foundation, Education First is pleased to launch a new website and video series on teacher practices to support social and emotional learning (SEL). This is an …
Identifying Latino Student Success: Identifying Top- and Bottom-Performing Institutions
As the Latino population in this nation has increased over the past few decades, there has been a dramatic surge in the numbers of Latino students pursuing postsecondary credentials and …
New Evidence that Students’ Beliefs about their Brains Drive Learning
Responding to the need to look beyond test scores to measure school quality, an increasing number of school districts are striving to incorporate socio-emotional learning measures in their accountability policies. …
How States and Districts Can Use ESSA funds to Support SEL
Mounting evidence suggests that social and emotional (SEL) skills are critical to students’ success in and out of the classroom. For schools, districts and states looking to help children build …
Social & Emotional Learning: Looking Back, Aiming Forward
Social emotional learning (SEL) holds great potential for improving learning and college and career-ready outcomes for all students. But there is much work to do to ensure that high-quality, integrated SEL …
Skills for Today: What We Know about Teaching and Assessing Collaboration
Education researchers at Pearson teamed up with the Partnership for 21st Century Learning (P21) to conduct a review of the research literature on the importance of collaboration skills for employers, …
CASEL Guidance, Tools and Resources for SEL
The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) has published a vast set of online guidance and practical tools to help school districts and schools systemically implement practices that …
This Time, With Feeling: Integrating Social and Emotional Development and College- and-Career-Ready Standards
A new report from the Aspen Institute calls attention to how students’ social and emotional development must be integrated with academics in order for students to fully achieve these aspirations. …