moral education

Teaches kids to set goals, resolve conflicts, show compassion, reach out to others, clarify their own thinking about values, and work cooperatively with others.

Presents a collection of over one hundred brief stories designed to inspire inmates and others to learn forgiveness and rediscover the healing powers of faith.

Contains articles in which the authors discuss strategies for exploring values in the classroom, looking at student-teacher, home-school, content area, schoolwide, and global connections.

Presents a guide to building characters in the classroom through literature instruction, providing lesson plans, hero stories, annotated bibliographies, assessment strategies, and reproducible forms.

Traces the source of the youth crisis in America to the manner in which children are being reared and to the lowering of accepted standards for young people's skills and behavior, and offers a program to combat the trend by reintroducing intellectual rigor in education and building upon children's native moral virtues.