We are advocates for character education. We believe that it is essential to students’ future success and also to a healthy, humane society. And so we are heartened that character education is now ...

I have personally witnessed how our schools can improve both the minds and the hearts of our students. While academic achievement should remain a central focus in public education, it is time to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At Boston University’s Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character (CAEC), presenters can turn to folks like Abraham, Aristotle, Lincoln and Anne Frank for lessons on virtue and character.

MIDDLETOWN — Teacher and coach Mark Kerns has gone more than the extra mile in his effort to start a character education program in Middletown. About 200 or so to be exact. Kerns and coach Keith ...

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 ...

Previously I wrote about Mr. Sharp's 4th grade classroom and the character strength Power Pyramids the students had constructed (Pyramids of Power). Well, I finally had the privilege of actually ...

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 ...

Wake Forest University has received more than $30 million in new funding from the Lilly Endowment Inc. for its Educating Character Initiative. As a result of that grant, Wake Forest will expand its ...