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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The development of character is a valued objective for many kinds of educational programs that take place both in and outside of school. Educators, parents, and others create and support structured ...

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 Rambam and other Rishonim expand the concept of emulating Hashem, using it as a foundation for comprehensive character ...