Article: Sprint Foundation Helps Students and Teachers with Character-Education Grants to Schools and School Districts Nationwide.

Article: North Carolina Schools Receive $31,000 in Grants from the Sprint Foundation.
Business Wire;  August 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Sprint Ahead for Education...Schools with Character-Education Programs RALEIGH...recipients for the Sprint Ahead for Education grant program. Sprint Ahead for Education...supports innovative character-education initiatives...develop the right character ...

Article: The Unavoidable Mission of Character Education.
School Administrator;  September 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......much of my life has been devoted to character education. When people learn what I do for...ask, Exactly what do you mean by character education? They want to know whether I deal...moral and values. When I define character education as the planned and unplanned things...

Article: From Aristotle to Angelou: best practices in character education.(feature)
Education Next;  March 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...The modern character education movement emerged in the 1980s...Douglas and chair of the Character Education Partnership (CEP), a national...are the successes of the character education movement? What do best practices...

Article: A Question of Character.
Techniques;  May 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......school-related topics are hotter than character education, a movement to teach students positive...What all the numbers add up to is character education--a surging wave in K-12 classrooms...Carrying the purposely benign tag character education, the fledgling movement sought to...

Article: Rethinking character education: challenging the conventional wisdom about camp and kids: a substantial number of people believe that camps can do more than provide an opportunity to have fun: they can also promote children's social and moral growth.
Camping Magazine;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......professionals in the movement known as character education. In its broad sense, that label...as a value-flee camp. To support character education in the broad sense just means we...values explicitly. But the term character education is also used in a narrow sense...

Article: The moral imperative: character education, soul by soul, at the Hyde schools.(feature)
Education Next;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Maine, dedicated to family-based character education, I witnessed a confrontation in...schools professedly dedicated to character education; it is, if anything, the extreme...leading entry under the heading character education. And a very large heading it is...

Article: It's a way of life, not a course.(Curriculum update: the latest developments in math, science, language arts and social studies)
District Administration;  December 1, 2003 ;     189 words ......at the 10th national forum of the Character Education Partnership. That lesson is something...creation of a Technical Center for Character Education and Civic Engagement. Universal...be covered in 10 minutes a day. [Character education] must be at the heart of the entire...

Article: Morality without religion.(Canada)(Dalton McGuinty)(Brief article)
Catholic Insight;  March 1, 2007 ;     302 words ......McGuinty announced that in 2007 character education will become part of the core curriculum...get this right, he said. Unlike character education programs connected with an explicit...boards and previously introduced character education in two public boards. Among her...

Article: Houston I.S.D. Receives Character Education Partnership National Lighthouse Award.
Business Wire;  October 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Large Urban School Districts at the Character Education Partnership's (CEP) Annual Forum...CEP's Eleven Principles of Effective Character Education, for specific measures that it has...cultivating and nurturing quality character education efforts. CEP's Blue Ribbon Panel...

Article: ADDING MULTIMEDIA Houston I.S.D. Receives Character Education Partnership National Lighthouse Award.
Business Wire;  October 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Large Urban School Districts at the Character Education Partnership's (CEP) Annual Forum...CEP's Eleven Principles of Effective Character Education, for specific measures that it has...cultivating and nurturing quality character education efforts. CEP's Blue Ribbon Panel...

Article: The Ten Commandments of Character Education.
School Administrator;  September 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......entitled The Ten Commandments of Character Education. Today's renewed interest in character education prompts me to offer it for our...children, we are all involved in character education. * The Third Commandment: Thou...

Article: Reading, Writing, 'Rithmetic...and Responsibility.(character education)
State Legislatures;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......community are claiming that the school's character education program has brought about significant...behavior as a result of comprehensive character education programs. In fact, a study conducted...better academic performance when character education programs are used. SO WHAT IS ...

Article: Character education resources.(Teacher's Toolbox)(U.S. Department of Education)(Brief Article)
Techniques;  September 1, 2004 ;     178 words ......launched its new website for the Character Education and Civic Engagement Technical Assistance...significant information and resources on character education and civic engagement--two key components...events. Another site that focuses on character education, GoodCharacter.com, has ...

Article: A literature-based approach to teaching values to adolescents: does it work?
Adolescence;  June 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ......that explicitly addresses moral or character education (Kilpatrick, 1992; Wynne & Ryan...Those in favor of including moral or character education argue that if schools work cooperatively...ways proposed to teach moral or character education (Wynne & Ryan, 1993), with the...