Phi Delta Kappan

Good character education is made up of three elements, Mr. Doyle avers - example, study, and practice. In the final analysis life is about moral choices, not about technique or spontaneous unfolding. From the time of the ancient Greeks to sometime in...

Dean Cohen is a tenured professor who has taught English and film studies at San Bernardino Valley College since 1968. He uses a confrontational teaching style designed to shock his students. He discusses and has the students write about such controversial...

In the world of business and finance, the old phrase "cooking the books" implies that manipulating financial ledgers will produce an illicit advantage for someone. Maybe this practice is used more often in movie and TV scripts than in real life, but...

In Ms. Ohanian's opinion, we could revolutionize education if we asked every prospective educator at every level just one simple question: "Read any good books lately?" I didn't really expect to be asked to join my hometown superintendent search committee....

Children are often surprised, Ms. Johnson says, when they are helped to see the impact that artists in different fields have had on their environment. During a stopover at the Seattle airport several years ago, my 4-year-old daughter was quietly tiding...

Creative Arts in Learning, a master's degree program at Lesley College Graduate School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, acknowledges that teacher creativity is the source of all that goes on in the classroom - and creativity involves drawing on resources...

Within the next year or so, one or more virtual schools will come into existence. I nearly said come into existence in the U.S., but, of course, virtual implies "without place." Like more traditional schools, a virtual school has a curriculum, a faculty,...