Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

By Thomas Lickona

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Sep 2, 2009
• ISBN: 9780307569486

Thomas Lickona

Thomas Lickona is a developmental psychologist and professor of education at the State University of New York at Cortland, where he directs the Center for the 4th and 5th Rs (respect and responsibility). The recipient of the Sandy Lifetime Achievement Award from the Character Education Partnership, he is the author of Educating for Character, which has been called "the bible of the character education movement."