Education is the soul of a nation made visible . If schools fail to shape character, nations fail to sustain democracy .

American higher education once rested on a shared moral vision shaped by Judeo-Christian traditions, affirming the dignity of every person. These moral responsibilities accompany freedom and the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Manno writes on education, workforce training, and career pathways. More than seven out of 10 U.S. adults give a grade of C or ...

If you are to read one opinion essay prompted by recent events in Ukraine and Israel, I’d recommend a piece by the bioethicist Ezekiel J. Emanuel entitled “Hamas and the Moral Failure of Our ...

Our collective future depends on what is happening in our classrooms. That’s not exaggeration — it’s fact. Because the lessons taught there shape how young people see their place in the world — and ...

Let me begin with a simple but unsettling question: Is a university amoral? Some would say yes. They would say the university is a neutral space, a marketplace of ideas, where every opinion has its ...

In a 2022 survey conducted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, only 47% of American adults could name all three branches of the American government. As if that were not troubling enough, a 2021 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Education last week unveiled major initiatives aimed at increasing transparency in ...

In his recent piece in Education Next, my AEI colleague Frederick Hess offers a crucial corrective to the prevailing winds in civic education. He calls for a “post-BS civics” – one grounded not in ...

Idaho middle schoolers can compete in the National Civics Bee, with a $5,000 school prize and $100,000 529 plan for national ...