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, ...

As schools prepare to roll out the new curriculum next year, including the Character Education subject as part of a broader ...

Many school administrators are realizing character education, once thought of as an intrusion on the school day, can actually help students perform better. A growing body of research supports its ...

At the United States Military Academy at West Point, our object is not only to teach cadets to be tactically skilled officers, but also to develop character—the constellation of psychological ...

Editor’s Note: For more recent information on character education, please read our 2022 special report, Social-Emotional Learning: What Really Works In a large and growing number of schools around the ...

Wake Forest University has announced that the Lilly Endowment has awarded it a five-year $30.7 million grant to support the university’s emphasis on the study of character and also create a national ...

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 ...

Schools have done many great things to help students. So have countless administrators, teachers, aides, and parents. Character development programs around the world, too, have done good work in ...

Character building is a cognitive and behavioural process of learning, adapting and assimilating the core ethical norms and civic values. It is the enculturation of the masses within the established ...

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, ...