#800: Why we need virtue education in our classrooms - 12/21/2021

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Jennifer Frey, associate professor at the University of South Carolina and a regular guest writer for Fordham’s Flypaper blog, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss why and how we should incorporate virtue education in classrooms. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber Northern runs down the best education research of 2021. 

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Recommended content:

• Jennifer’s ongoing Flypaper blog post series on virtue education: 
  • “Reconnecting knowledge and virtue”
  • “What is virtue and why does it matter?”
  • “Teaching gratitude beyond Thanksgiving”
  • “Civility, democracy, and education”
• Amber’s list of the top six studies she reviewed this past year on the Research Minute.

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