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Rise in Classroom Violence Alarms Educators

in Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Secondary Schools / by Gene Bedley
July 1, 1998

CHARLOTTE — Student assaults and threats against school employees surged by almost 60 percent in North Carolina over the past three years, and some teachers say it’s time to fight back. Teachers say they’ve become frightened of some of the children they are supposed to serve: a small population of angry and defiant students, habitual… Read more »

Manufacturing Victims

in Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Secondary Schools / by Gene Bedley
July 1, 1998

Poor me-Nobody likes Me-I can’t do anything right-Why am I always the one that did it?-Might as well not try it never works anyway! Contributors 1. Adults who accuse and excuse childs behavior. 2. Adults who are too Restrictive or Permissive. 3. Adults who fail to help children discover their gifts and purpose! 4. Adults… Read more »

Cheating

in Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Secondary Schools / by Gene Bedley
July 1, 1998

Cheating is so widespread among high school students that it has become almost as traditional as the prom. Posted honor codes and signed honesty contracts haven’t put so much as a dent in a problem whose abuses and sophistication increase every year. I was recently invited to a forum on cheating at a South County… Read more »

Respect Check-Up

in Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Secondary Schools / by Gene Bedley
July 1, 1998

Dear Families, Last month all the students completed “Respect Check-Ups” in class. The Check-Up is a questionnaire with ten areas of Respect listed. The students evaluated themselves and then had a classmate and the teacher rate them. They were asked to decide whether they demonstrated the various respectful behaviors consistently, sometimes, or never. In the… Read more »

Students Want Values Taught

in Middle Schools, Secondary Schools / by Gene Bedley
February 1, 1998

Most students (63 percent) think values and principles of right and wrong should be taught in the classroom. Those least likely to support this notion are students who earn C averages or worse, according to a survey conducted for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company by Louis Harris and Associates, Inc. The report, Students Voice Their Opinions… Read more »

National Parent Study

in Middle Schools, Secondary Schools / by Gene Bedley
February 1, 1998

Teaching Values: How 7,700 of you feel about ethic Top Ten Values 1. Basic idea of right and wrong 98% 2. The importance of education 92% 3. Standards concerning sexual behavior 83% 4. Respect for people of different races, ages,values 82% 5. The importance of Marriage and family 77% 6. The Value of friendship. 77%… Read more »

Not Finding Heroes, We Are All The Poorer

in Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Secondary Schools / by Gene Bedley
February 1, 1998

Culture: Americans’ fixation with sex and sleaze puts flaws on a pedestal above achievement. Shortly after her husband’s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy wrote: “For Jack history was full of heroes…. Jack had this hero idea of history.” How quaint she seems, how naive and sentimental. Now Jack frolics in the White House pool with call girls… Read more »

Sports Stars Aren't Immune

in Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Secondary Schools / by Gene Bedley
February 1, 1998

For all the debate about the Golden State Warriors’ decision to fire Latrell Sprewell for assaulting his coach, let us remember there was a time when even celebrity athletes were held accountable for their misdeeds. We forget because of the recent coddling of multi million dollar sports celebrities and the indulgence of their spoiled-brat tantrums…. Read more »

The Character of Education – Promises to Keep

in Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Secondary Schools / by Gene Bedley
February 1, 1998

Chip Wood, co-creator of the Responsive Class-room gave the June 25, 1996 keynote at the Center’s Second Annual Summer Institute in Character Education at SUNY Cortland. In his concluding remarks, he outlined seven promises he believes we must make to our children schools, and each other if we are to move our beliefs about character… Read more »

Students Look to Internet For New Ways to Cheat

in Middle Schools, Secondary Schools / by Gene Bedley
February 1, 1998

The two papers were identical. There was no question about it. Word for word, paragraph by paragraph, the assignment turned in by the two young men was the same. `My first thought was that they had collaborated on the assignment,” said Christopher Morray- Jones, who taught the introductory religion class at the University of California… Read more »

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