Character Education in American Schools

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This paper examines how the deteriorating morality of many of today's youth is of increasing concern not only to families, but to educators. It looks at how the moral and ethical issues that both teachers and students must deal with on a daily basis have changed considerably with the times and attempts to analyze how we can incorporate effective character education programs in our nation's schools without influencing students in a biased direction.

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"The curriculum orients students in the world. By virtue of what we include in the curriculum we inevitably convey to students an understanding of basic truths, of what is important, and of how they should structure their lives and their thinking. So, for example, the utilitarian ideal of education so evident in the reform literature of the 1980's and in the rhetoric of business and government leaders, assumes that economic, scientific, and technological thinking and values define the good life; the important subjects are the sciences, mathematics, economics, and computers. The utilitarian ideal values analytical, critical thinking."

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