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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We’re not animating dancing brooms in feature films here. We’re designing interfaces for apps and websites. Do these principles really have anything at all to do with Interface animation? The answer ...

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 ...

During my current reading of the book, "The Destruction of the Great American Dream" by W. David Stedman, I was prompted to act and rescue the principles of the great American Dream. Accordingly, I ...

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 ...

This summer I observed, with as much empathy as I could muster, the labors of two colleagues and friends who were preparing their tenure cases. Both of them asked me for advice about the area in which ...

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 ...

Laura Peter is a former deputy undersecretary of commerce for intellectual property and deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Nineteenth-century American writer and philosopher ...