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 ...

Students often know the right thing to do. How can schools help them to do it? The numbers are in and they don't look good." That was the assessment of the Josephson Institute of Ethics last October, ...

Here’s how it will work. When you open the main Paimon Menu, the Training Guide will appear in the same row as the Archive, Character Archive, and Character icons. Once selected, you can see the Party ...

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 ...

I've been thinking a lot about Character Education. A few decades back, I began seeing colorful Character Education posters in schools. It was part of a curriculum that promoted the basic character ...

WORCESTER — A new report from the Pioneer Institute highlights Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public School’s success in teaching “character education” to students. Defined in the paper as education aimed ...

Throughout his now-famous “Last Lecture,” the late Carnegie Mellon University professor of computer science Randy Pausch talked about what he called the “head fake.” It is the idea that learning and ...

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, ...