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Tyner, Adam – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2021
Whether a response to lackluster academic gains in our nation's schools or longstanding beliefs about the wider purposes of schooling, social and emotional learning (SEL) has gained a massive following in education circles. Further, the mental health challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic have strengthened the demand that schools do more to…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Mental Health, Parent Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
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Mitani, Hajime – AERA Open, 2021
Today's economy demands higher order thinking skills (HOTS), and the public education system has a critical role in supporting students' acquisition of HOTS. Yet, numerous studies documented inequity in access to higher quality instruction that promotes HOTS, which could result in wide test score gaps in HOTS. In this study, I examined test score…
Descriptors: Scores, Achievement Gap, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods
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Katz, Jennifer; Mercer, Sterett H.; Skinner, Sarah – School Mental Health, 2020
A multisite cluster-randomized trial (by school) was conducted to examine the effects of a combined mental health literacy and dialectical behavior therapy skills program implemented by teachers on three protective factors related to social and emotional well-being. The sample of eight schools that were randomly assigned to intervention included…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Mental Health, Literacy
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Taylor, Rebecca D.; Oberle, Eva; Durlak, Joseph A.; Weissberg, Roger P. – Child Development, 2017
This meta-analysis reviewed 82 school-based, universal social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions involving 97,406 kindergarten to high school students (M[subscript age] = 11.09 years; mean percent low socioeconomic status = 41.1; mean percent students of color = 45.9). Thirty-eight interventions took place outside the United States.…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Social Development, Emotional Development, Intervention
EdChoice, 2022
This poll was conducted between June 15-June 21, 2022 among a sample of 2,198 adults. The interviews were conducted online and the data were weighted to approximate a target sample of adults based on gender, educational attainment, age, race, and region. Among the key findings are: (1) School parents were much more likely in June than in May to…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Public Opinion, Elementary Secondary Education, Adults
EdChoice, 2022
This poll was conducted between November 10-14, 2022 among a sample of 2,200 adults. The interviews were conducted online and the data were weighted to approximate a target sample of adults based on gender, educational attainment, age, race, and region. Among the key findings are: (1) In November, economic issues dominated voting priorities at the…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Public Opinion, Elementary Secondary Education, Adults
de Azúa, Ramón L. – National Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Neglected or Delinquent Children and Youth (NDTAC), 2018
In 2017, the National Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Neglected or Delinquent Children and Youth (NDTAC) released its first in a series of professional development briefs that focus on the professional development needs and interests of neglected or delinquent (N or D) State coordinators, correctional educators, and providers of…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Educational Needs, Child Neglect, Delinquency
Fryer, Roland G., Jr. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
There are large and important differences between blacks and whites in nearly every facet of life--earnings, unemployment, incarceration, health, and so on. This chapter contains three themes. First, relative to the 20th century, the significance of discrimination as an explanation for racial inequality across economic and social indicators has…
Descriptors: Racial Discrimination, Racial Differences, Skill Development, African American Students
McClure, Erica; Steffensen, Margaret S. – 1980
Children's use of conjunctions was examined for linguistic complexity, developmental differences, and ethnic differences. Third, sixth, and ninth grade Anglo-American, Black, and Hispanic students completed sentence fragments ending in "and,""but,""because," and "even though." These conjunctions can be…
Descriptors: Conjunctions, Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction