Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility
- ISBN-10
- 0307569489
- ISBN-13
- 9780307569486
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 496
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-09-02
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Author
- Thomas Lickona
Description
Calls for renewed moral education in America's schools, offering dozens of programs schools can adopt to teach students respect, responsibility, hard work, and other values that should not be left to parents to teach.
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Other editions
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- 1992
- 478 pages
- Paperback
- Bantam Dell Publishing Group
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