I’ve hosted a number of sessions about social and emotional learning (SEL) over the past six months, and one question that’s repeatedly come up is whether SEL is ultimately an attempt to repackage ...

Moral development isn’t just about teaching kids rules—it’s about guiding them to think, feel, and act with empathy and fairness. From Piaget’s and Kohlberg’s stages to everyday parenting choices, the ...

I’ve hosted a number of sessions about social and emotional learning (SEL) over the past six months, and one question that’s repeatedly come up is whether SEL is ultimately an attempt to repackage ...

The first reason for caring about how sensitive our standardized tests are to instruction is moral. If the tests we use to judge the effects of instruction on student learning are not sensitive to ...

Psychologists at the University of Toronto have found that we begin to make moral character judgments as early as 12 months ...

It’s easy for us to believe that reasoning about moral issues is the most important aspect of morality. We spend many years in schools that typically foster an intellectual view of life, encourage us ...

Social and emotional learning (SEL) might be a new term, but at its core it represents the educational priorities of character education. For many Americans, SEL’s roots are deeply enmeshed in moral ...

It’s easy for us to believe that reasoning about moral issues is the most important aspect of morality. We spend many years in schools that typically foster an intellectual view of life, encourage us ...