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, ...

This Education Week explainer covers character education, the formal teaching of morals and values in schools.

Educators across the U.S. are quietly finding ways to combine different approaches to promote whole-school well-being.

Teaching Character Across the Globe Home News News Detail 12/04/2012 The basic character education lessons of SUNY Cortland’s Center for the 4th and 5th Rs (Respect and Responsibility) translate well ...

James Comer has said that teaching character is like catching a cold- children “get it” from the air around them, not from any specific program.

"I became a better person by teaching character," says Ryan Hambley, a math teacher who leads the character development program at KIPP Courage at Landrum Middle School.

Dr. Marvin Oxenham believes the future of theological education must not only rest on academic excellence or professional ...

The Peddlesfoots character education series simplifies the process for teachers to provide lessons on favorable character traits for their students by featuring one trait for each month that ...

But we shouldn’t look to the “grit” phenomenon as the best way to do that.

Character education can help adolescents acquire the skills they need to succeed in school and prepare for college and work. Character education has gained support by the California Education Code ...

The basic character education lessons of SUNY Cortland’s Center for the 4th and 5th Rs (Respect and Responsibility) translate well regardless of the language. And it seems foreign countries are ...