Several educators involved in that meeting called it a turning point.
Character education, which some educators call "values clarification," is not new.
Now, more than six years and two million students later, some educators are calling for a closer examination.
Ms. Mellow says she does not favor interfering with what educators call "the right to fail."
Over and over, when asked what the money would be spent on, educators called for more teacher training.
When it came to my language instruction, she was a believer in what today's educators call the immersion method.
The woeful results in some areas, however, have masked what educators call significant gains elsewhere.
Overcoming these inclinations is the crux of what he and many other educators call "teaching for social justice".
Worse, the university has become what educators call a bottom feeder.
Singaporean educators and students called for more rigorous checking of academic standards.