Nurturing your passion to help students become good people

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

Reopening Our Schools While Strengthening Our Judgments—and Our Tolerance

The inevitable debates as schools reopen in the fall provide a chance for student civic formation

Throwing Elbows vs. ‘The Golden Half-Hour’

Engagement, modeling, and trust animate the approach to forming character at St. Thomas More Academy

Core Virtues, Core Knowledge, and Literature as Inspiration

Mary Beth Klee has developed a “core virtues” character education program that draws on literature and Aristotle

Tutoring as a Coronavirus Palliative in Education

The evidence for remedial tutoring has particular force at a time when so many students may fall behind

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