In too many schools, character education has become a hodgepodge: drug-abuse prevention, conflict resolution, health education, social and emotional skills acquisition, athletics, and service-learning ...
Yael Kidron is the director of Character Education at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. The last year in the news has stirred discussion about values such as tolerance, ...
Five Japanese professors visited SUNY Cortland on Nov. 7 to learn how to bring character education into their country’s classrooms. Two faculty members from Hiroshima University, two from Okayama ...
R.E. Wermus is a journalism intern for The Daily Signal. A strong majority of U.S. voters—78%—support teaching character and moral education to public school students, and 67% support that education ...
Our nation has seen many cultural and lifestyle changes over the past 15 months, prompting our society to self-reflect on everything from social norms to social justice to educational priorities. In ...
Maroons on a Mission” were part of the college’s yearlong exploration of character education through a special grant from the ...
The private university announced it has joined the LearningWell Coalition through the University of Dubuque Wendt Center for ...
After two decades of poking and prodding high school students toward higher academic achievement, education reformers, administrators, and teachers are becoming discouraged. In particular, ...
There is a growing consensus among pediatricians, psychologists and educators that the youth are not OK. But the absence of mental illness is not the same as well-being. The real goal should be to ...
The National Assembly on Monday passed a character education promotion act, which requires all Korean kindergartens, elementary, middle and high schools to teach students how to develop “humane ...
Boston Washington, DC, teacher Lelac Almagor says that the formulaic progressivist approach schools use to “character education” is self-undermining. The idea is that schools need to teach poor kids, ...