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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
On School Grounds: Transcript of Interview with Richard Fournier on Rural Public High Schools
This is a lightly edited transcript of an interview that was conducted on July 25, 2019, with education researcher Richard Fournier.
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
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