Character education and ethical development have become central objectives within educational policy across diverse contexts, seeking to cultivate moral virtues, civic responsibility and reflective ...

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, ...

UVA Engineering students will soon benefit from the new Engineering Character Strength Initiative made possible by a grant from the Program for Leadership and Character and Lilly Endowment Inc. The ...

There is a character education movement in America coming from colleges and universities of every size, research type and timezone. It’s not the first thought that comes to mind about higher education ...

I’ve always been a strong believer that an educator cannot TEACH anything - only FACILITATE learning. With regard to character then, my question: What approach to character can an educator take? Even ...

When I was a boy, it seemed that everyone was deeply proud of America’s schools and the values of the students within them. You don’t hear much of that these days. When it comes to our kids, it seems ...

When challenging student behavior arises, the instinct in many schools is to turn to discipline: assigning detention, suspension, or removal from class. But John Gasko, chief well-being officer at ...

The children contributed heart and soul to the design of what was much more than a showy art project. Inspired by years of successful indoctrination from their schools Character Education Programs, ...

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 ...