If you’re familiar with the Anne E. Casey Foundation’s annual Kids Count study of child welfare, you’ll have heard this before: Louisiana ranks near the bottom. The exhaustive annual survey of health, economic and social factors affecting child welfare rates Louisiana 48th among the 50 states and Washington, D.C. Here’s something you may be hearing about more in the future: social and emotional learning. St. Mary Superintendent Teresa Bagwell said those ideas are emerging from research into the way schools can help children deal with disadvantages that range all the way up to trauma. Disadvantages, we’ve got. In the economic section of the Kids Count ...