Acceptance, empathy, kindness and respect were the values emphasized during the annual Chiefs Challenge Character Education Day at Berner Middle School. Students heard powerful messages from guest ...

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, ...

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 ...

Staff members were growing concerned that many in the student body at the high school were not developing the personal skills needed to participate responsibly and informedly in civic life and wanted ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our nation has seen many cultural and lifestyle changes over the past 15 months, prompting our society to self-reflect on everything from social norms to social justice to educational priorities. In ...

CARLISLE — Carlisle Area School Board voted 7-0 Thursday night to launch a pilot character education project in the district’s Wilson Middle School this year. The “Character Strong” program has been ...

Tom Harrison works for the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at the University of Birmingham. He receives funding from the John Templeton Foundation and the Department of Education. For the ...