As many educators and researchers will attest, there’s no exact science to choosing vocabulary words—no inherent reason the word “detest” is more important to teach than “despise,” or why “compassion” ...

Advocates of social and emotional learning (SEL) can learn much from the travails that bedeviled Common Core. A close look at Common Core offers a number of telling parallels that SEL proponents would ...

The widespread enthusiasm for social and emotional learning (SEL) is easy to appreciate. After all, it seems painfully obvious that children learn better when they feel valued, supported, and safe.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York education leaders have tweaked and renamed the Common Core learning standards in response to criticism over the way they were written and implemented. A Board of Regents ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How can we help English Language Learners meet the Common Core Standards? On one hand, you have Common Core Standards or, in states that don’t use Common Core, there ...