Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Edward Brooks is director of the Programme for Global Leadership at the University of Oxford and executive ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics has developed the Framework for Character Education to guide the development of the Center’s educational programs for children and youth ages five to 18 years.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 88, No. 2, Character Education: Introduction, Evolution, and Current Trends (2013), pp. 159-179 (21 pages) Academic dishonesty among high school students has long ...