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, ...

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, ...

Is character education an essential part of schooling? The authors of two recent Education Week Commentaries think so, and offer their thoughts on how it could be improved. Peter R. Greer argues that ...

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 ...