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, ...

Nineteen years ago, when my family moved from Ohio to Massachusetts, my daughter's new high school issued her a student handbook that was 26 pages long. After the front page, came 24 pages of student ...

COVID-19 toppled every best-laid plan that schools had for the final months of the 2019-2020 academic year. Beginning in March, as educators scrambled to figure out their best instructional options, ...

The children contributed heart and soul to the design of what was much more than a showy art project. Inspired by years of successful indoctrination from their schools Character Education Programs, ...

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 ...