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 ...

I should probably stop short of saying this will be the last thing I have to say about grit—never say never—but I think this will be the last thing I have to say about grit. Maybe. In response to my ...

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.

There is a character education movement in America coming from colleges and universities of every size, research type and timezone. It’s not the first thought that comes to mind about higher education ...

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 ...

A ngela Lee Duckworth’s research into the benefits of “grit” — which she defines as a blend of perseverance and passion — did more than spark 1,000 blog posts and editorial hot takes. Disseminated via ...

Putting aside the debate about whether a grit deficit exists, what does science say about character and how it’s shaped? We also know that character traits split into at least two groups: performance ...

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 ...

To paraphrase “A Tale of Two Cities,” when it comes to character these seem like both the best of times and the worst of times. On the negative side, it seems like some new political, social, or ...