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CultureFeed honors educators’ commitment to a better world by providing research, fresh ideas, classroom success stories, and interviews with scholars and school leaders.

The Content of Their Character: King’s Theme Across the Years

Using education to make Martin Luther King’s dream a reality for this generation and those to come

What I Saw at the Character.org National Forum

Reflections on the annual conference devoted to character education

Heading to Character.org’s National Forum on Character

Off to Washington, DC, for three days of learning and connecting around the topic of character formation

Disarming Love

How a coach’s decision to go beyond neutralizing a threat serves as an example for us all

Sociologist David Sikkink on Character Formation at Alternative-Pedagogy Schools

In this full-length interview, sociologist David Sikkink discusses six unconventional high schools: a Friends school, a Montessori school, a Waldorf school, an IB school, a New Tech school, and a Democratic school. We talk about:
• The surprising amount of autonomy—and even authority—given to students in these settings
• How students in alternative-pedagogy schools engage with their communities
• Why many of these schools are strongly critical of popular culture

Sociologist Jeffrey Dill on Character Formation in Homeschooling Families

In this full-length interview, sociologist Jeffrey Dill addresses issues like these:
• The broad diversity that exists among homeschoolers, from religious beliefs to motivations for choosing this lifestyle
• What it means to understand homeschooling as an “oppositional culture”
• How homeschoolers use employment and technology to augment student experiences