Geoffrey Maruyama, chair of the Department of Educational Psychology and professor in the Psychological Foundations of Education program, and educational psychology Ph.D. candidate Lara Westerhof were recently quoted in the Star Tribune article, “Twin Cities schools add social-emotional learning to the 3 R’s.”
In the article, Maruyama and Westerhof provide background on the history of social-emotional learning concepts. Westerhof, who is doing her dissertation on social-emotional learning, told the Star Tribune she has seen no evidence that social-emotional learning skills are decreasing achievement gaps by helping students of color more than white students.
