Blad, E. (2015, February 26). Benefits of Social-Emotional Programs Far Outweigh Their Costs, Study Finds.

For every dollar schools spend on six common social-emotional learning programs, those interventions return an average $11 worth of benefits. That’s the finding of “The Economic Value of Social and Emotional Learning,” a study released this week by the Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education at Columbia University’s Teachers College. To arrive at their conclusions, researchers analyzed existing evaluations of six prominent social-emotional learning interventions, which are described in this graphic I pulled from the report.