Doucette Cunningham News Today

Social-emotional learning, or SEL, is a decades-old framework embedded into the curriculum and practices of countless public schools across the country. But critics have accused schools of using it as a means to indoctrinate children with radical gender ideology or teach comprehensive sex education.

Steady Habits: Finding mental health solutions for CT kids This last year, spent in a pandemic, has changed the lives of so many. But those changes might be felt most acutely by children. Their routines of family life, social life, and learning, were upended. We’ve heard about a “lost school year,” for kids, but what about just a “lost year?” The problems weren’t just felt by those children with the most acute mental health disorders, but we know that for those children who are most...

The pandemic has made summer camps and childcare programs more important than ever, educators say.