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"What can schools do?," by Charles C. Haynes
and Marvin W. Berkowitz, February 2007, USAToday.com.
"After the endless headlines involving corrupt politicians,
corporate cheats, doped-up sports stars and Internet predators,
you might think that the American people would be demanding
more character education in schools. Think again. . . . And
then we move on to more important things. Test scores, for
example."
"Character
and Academics: What Good Schools Do," by Jacques
S. Benninga, Marvin W. Berkowitz, Phyllis Kuehn, and Karen
Smith, February 2006 edition of Phi Delta Kappan.
"Though there has been increasing interest in character
education among policy makers and education professionals,
many schools hesitate to do anything that might detract from
their focus on increasing academic performance. The authors
present evidence indicating that this may be misguided."
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"Smart and Good Schools - A Paradigm Shift for Character
Education," by Matthew Davidson, Thomas Lickona,
and Vladimir Khmelkov, November 2007, Education Week.
"Throughout history and in cultures around the world, education
rightly conceived has had two great goals: helping students become
smart and helping them become good. They need character for both."
"Character
Education on the Cheap," by Peter R. Greer, November
2007, Education Week.
"Schools have a primary duty to educate students on what
good character means and how to develop it . . . . Schools
serious about helping students form good character rely heavily
on the Character Education Partnership’s
'"11 Principles.'"
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"The Project Wisdom resources have become an important part
of our school ... especially as we have grown in size over the past
several years. We see the daily readings and others resources as
a means of humanizing and infusing our students and staff with a
positive spirit."
Dr. Thomas Neagle, Assistant Principal, Glastonbury, CT
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