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 ...

STRAFFORD, Mo. -- Teachers and staff in the Strafford school district are praising a program that aims to teach students positive character traits. Character education is now a part of every school ...

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 ...

Wake Forest University has announced that the Lilly Endowment has awarded it a five-year $30.7 million grant to support the university’s emphasis on the study of character and also create a national ...

As we continue to debate the direction of K-12 education, it is important to recognize that there is more to preparing students for success than just teaching them how to read, write and do math.

In classrooms around the world, educators strive to nurture not only students’ academic skills but also the qualities that help them thrive more generally as dynamic people, namely character strengths ...

R.E. Wermus is a journalism intern for The Daily Signal. A strong majority of U.S. voters—78%—support teaching character and moral education to public school students, and 67% support that education ...

The gap between the poor and rich of the world has been widening over the past few decades. Differences in health between social classes are becoming greater and the combined effects of social ...