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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-long cup campaign was also bolstered by first-place finishes in squash, B-league volleyball in both the fall and spring, co-ed soccer and six-foot basketball. Cabot's hockey team finished in second place behind the first-year team, so Cabot earned the first-place cup points for that event...
...Commandments would alarm guardians of the church-state wall. And in any case, they would have to be translated into modern educationese: Thou shalt model caring behaviors in interactive relationships with thy peer group. In the public schools, where any kind of commandment might be deemed unduly judgmental, character ed revolves around pillars or building blocks of character--universally accepted values bleached of any sectarian contamination. And they are transmitted by the familiar methods beloved of today's pedagogues: posters and banners, role playing and sharing, multi-culti storytelling and words of the week--all the cheerful paraphernalia that makes...
...separate classes in character are taught, but teachers say it is integrated into the curriculum; thus a lesson about Helen Keller becomes a case study in courage and persistence. Students who demonstrate any of the pillars get their pictures posted in the hallway and free ice cream. Character ed, says principal David Steinberg, "is our philosophical glue." Among some students, though, there are signs the glue doesn't stick. "Most people just follow it to get the award," says sixth-grader Novlette Akinseye. "Sometimes it is really pushed into our heads," says seventh-grader Victoria McConnell. "It's a good...
Scholarly studies of the effects of character ed are encouraging but inconclusive. Teachers and administrators, though, say their programs work. Their evidence is anecdotal but remarkably uniform. Steinberg of Gaithersburg Middle School says that since he instituted character ed four years ago, test scores are up and suspensions are down. The Round Rock, Texas, school district started character education last year after a survey of student attitudes showed some alarming results: 71% of students admitted to telling a lie in the previous month, for example. Round Rock's Jollyville Elementary School reports a 40% drop in disciplinary referrals since...
Even the best character-ed programs, though, can be seen as the culmination of a long process by which schools have assumed more and more responsibilities traditionally handled at home. The average school now teaches kids how to choose a balanced diet, drive, balance a checkbook, have sex (in sex ed), not have sex (in abstinence programs), identify sexual abuse and avoid HIV. We are a long way from reading, writing and arithmetic, and have been for some time. It was probably inevitable that we would ask schools to assume responsibility for teaching our kids to be decent human beings...