The following is a speech delivered by Professor Kaplan this month to the Rotary Club of Madison, Wisconsin. The text is reprinted here with his permission. On February 15 of this year, in a class in ...

It was a principal's worst-case scenario: School was starting in a few days and I still had an open position in seventh-grade math. I didn't want to hire a teacher who was lacking traditional ...

Maryanne Parker, etiquette expert and founder of Manor of Manners, agrees, and she even recommends enforcing these etiquette principles at a young age. "We cannot assume children will just pick up ...

Psychological research on learning is sometimes overemphasized in the classroom, but that doesn’t mean some concepts shouldn’t play an important role in teachers’ approaches. A report released last ...

The Rev. Mark Tyler shared this hope with me during a PhillyVoice interview on the interfaith movement in Philadelphia. "[Our children are] inheriting a world that is closer by social media than it ...

Katharine Gorka is director of the Center for Civil Society and the American Dialogue at The Heritage Foundation's Edwin J. Feulner Institute. We have a serious problem in this country with civics ...

Teaching and preaching weren't at the top of Bishop Dorothy Daniel's list of career choices. "I wasn't even a good student in school," said Daniel, the senior pastor of Kingdom Life Family Center and ...

From early morning greetings of “Hello, how are you today?” to listening quietly to instructions during circle time or using table manners during lunch break, the concept of Grace and Courtesy can be ...