Rules for Engagement
The Rules for Engagement blog explored the nonacademic issues that bear on students’ learning. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: social-emotional learning, student well-being, and school climate.
Student Well-Being & Movement
USDA Set to Relax School Lunch Nutrition Rules
The USDA plans to unveil a new school meal rule that will likely address concerns from critics who say that current regulations are overly restrictive and costly to implement.
School Climate & Safety
After 100 Days, Trump Pledge to End Gun-Free School Zones Is Unfulfilled
Trump's campaign pledge to end gun-free school zones "on day one" remains unfulfilled. It would require cooperation from Congress to change existing laws on guns in schools.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Social-Emotional Learning: New Resources Aid Districts' Implementation
The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, or CASEL, launched a new set of online resources this week designed to help school districts implement comprehensive SEL strategies.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Do Messages About Social-Emotional Learning Harm Students of Color?
Advocates for social-emotional learning caution that some messages about SEL wrongly promote harmful stereotypes and narratives about children of color and low-income students.
Student Well-Being & Movement
How Should Schools Handle Unpaid Lunch Debts?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will soon require schools to set clear, consistent policies about how they address unpaid school lunch bills, which have long been a sticky issue for schools. The problem saw renewed interest recently after New Mexico banned "lunch shaming."
Equity & Diversity
Feds Drop Lawsuit Over N.C. Law as LGBT Advocates Vow to Continue Fight
Civil rights groups say the replacement for the "bathroom bill" does not eliminate concerns about discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity for the state's residents, including transgender students in its public schools.
Student Well-Being & Movement
More California Students Vaccinated After Change in Law, Data Show
California schools saw an increase in fully vaccinated incoming students after the state passed a law restricting so-called philosophical opt-outs from immunization mandates, new data show.
School Climate & Safety
San Bernardino Shooting: Elementary School Used Common Security Measures
The man who shot two students and his estranged wife in a special education classroom Monday entered a San Bernardino, Calif., elementary school with approval from office staff, officials said.
School Climate & Safety
Student, Teacher Shot Dead in California Special Needs Classroom
A second student was injured after the gunman shot his wife, who was a teacher at the San Bernadino school, and then himself, police said.
Equity & Diversity
Transgender Student Gavin Grimm: 'This Case Is Bigger Than Me'
Grimm, who transitioned from female-to-male his freshman year, sued his district after it created a policy that limited bathroom access by biological sex.
Equity & Diversity
Transgender-Student Rules Loom Large in Illinois Suburb's School Board Race
The Palatine, Ill., district policy that allows a transgender student to access the girls locker room has dominated its school board race.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Can Social-Emotional Learning Be Measured? Contest Seeks Ideas
A contest seeks creative ways to measure students' social-emotional learning.
States
Watch: Surviving a School Shooting Shaped His Views on Arming Teachers
Retired Montana Principal John Moffatt says arming teachers and school staff is not the right way to respond to the threat of school shootings. His opinion is informed by his own experience as the survivor of a 1986 school shooting at Fergus High School in Lewistown, Mont., where a student gunman shot Moffatt in the abdomen after shooting and killing a substitute teacher.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Should Schools Teach About Sexting, Consent? Nevada Students Pitch Rule
A panel of Nevada students has proposed a bill that would require high schools to teach about issues like sexting, consent, and driving under the influence.