The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) allows states to use federal funding to adopt research-proven programs to improve student achievement. This includes social-emotional learning (SEL) programs. To offer some guidance and inform decision makers, RAND has released a report, Social and Emotional Learning Interventions Under the Every Student..., which reviews recent evidence on these programs. The report discusses how ESSA supports SEL programs and outlines the programs that meet the ESSA evidence standards.
Specifically, authors found 60 SEL programs that met strong, moderate, or promising evidence standards in grades K-12. Most were evaluated at the elementary level in urban communities with minority populations. A second report describes these programs and the research that supports them in detail.
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