Character education is of fundamental importance, however, it can be harder to agree on the time in a child's life when it can have the greatest impact.
Community School for Social Justice founder Sue-Ann Rosch discussed how administrators at the South Bronx school help students take responsibility for their actions with peer mediation during an Education Leaders Roundtable at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture this spring.
Chicago Public Schools administrators are sending students a message: Performance and accountability mean nothing; it’s political perception that really matters.
A retired Idaho school superintendent has been reprimanded for giving all teachers in his district identical evaluation scores, but the former superintendent denies wrongdoing.
Administrators at Illinois’ Quincy Junior High School are working with 6th-grade boys to give them the “skills to make a man valuable and character to make a man invaluable,” The Herald Whig reports.
Canadian schools are combating student discipline problems with restorative justice circles.
A national survey on character in which a West Roxbury, Massachusetts, Catholic school participated found that respondents have far more confidence in the integrity of local leaders than national ones, a lesson that the school is using to teach its students about character, despite the polarized national political landscape.
Six student fights this school year, and three in the last week, prompted Wilde Lake High School Principal Rick Wilson to start a conversation with parents.
A new requirement at a Midwestern college teaches freshmen patriotism and skills valued by the military.
A candid video of a Tennessee 6th-grader reflecting on the cruelty of his school tormentors has sparked a massive groundswell of support, from a GoFundMe campaign in his honor, to celebrity shout-outs and talk show appearances.
