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 ...

Explicitly teaching character in college? It’s not a new idea, but it’s not widespread. For that reason (among others), Wake Forest University’s Program for Leadership and Character has attracted ...

Joseph Gauld is the founder of the Hyde Organization, a network of character-based public and private schools, and he has been an influential voice in the independent school community for decades. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s important for teachers to find ways to teach social-emotional learning and character development to help their students build the skills necessary to process the events of 2020 and to persevere ...

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.

The foundation was started by the family of a Marine killed in Iraq. The development of a "good" and honorable character is "perhaps the central task of any civilized society," columnist Richard ...

There is a growing consensus among pediatricians, psychologists and educators that the youth are not OK. But the absence of mental illness is not the same as well-being. The real goal should be to ...

They’re only 5 and 6 years old, but already, the first-graders at Guadalupe’s Frank Elementary School are learning about peace, violence and how to resolve conflicts. "We’ve talked about praising ...

My regrettable “mean girl” moment happened when I was in seventh grade. I was living in a new town and struggling to fit in. As Halloween approached, I felt hopeful when a shy yet kind girl asked me ...

I teach a first grade dual language immersion program at an elementary school outside of Madison, Wisconsin. Our school district has made character development a main focus and I’ve found some ...