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, ...

Characters are meant to evolve and change throughout the course of a story. Otherwise, what is the point? Sometimes that journey leads them to be better than they were before. Character development is ...

Many school administrators are realizing character education, once thought of as an intrusion on the school day, can actually help students perform better. A growing body of research supports its ...

Research from the University of Birmingham has found that schools recognised for their character education show stronger academic progress.

In his new book, How Children Succeed, journalist Paul Tough argues that it is. Drawing on research from neuroscience, economics, and psychology, Tough makes the case that character traits such as ...

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 ...

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 ...

The National Heritage Academies charter school network educates more than 59,000 students across its 80-plus schools in nine states. While it might be one of those much-maligned for-profit operators, ...

Kelseyhas loved anime, gaming and manga since she was first introduced to it by her cousins when she was a young girl. She first started out watching Bleach before moving onto the other Big Three, ...

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.– General Douglas MacArthur General MacArthur’s observation reflects the widely ...