Speaking before attendees gathered at the Family Research Council office in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Stella Morabito, senior contributor to The Federalist, unpacked both the content and processes of a group called CASEL, the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning.

"Social and emotional learning," she explained, is becoming all the rage in the public education policy realm and if left unchecked it will result in a monolithic, nationalized mandate demanding conformity to the politically correct dogma of the days. In other words, it is a massive state-sponsored propaganda operation intended to isolate and control people, ...