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2009 News


Virtues Guidelines

A new article by CEP Board Chairman Emeritus, Sanford McDonnell, explores explanations of a comprehensive list of virtues that schools may find useful in choosing those core values most important to their own communities.

Competence Without Character Is Our Greatest Threat
This paper by Tammy Toso and Patrick Toffler, originally submitted for Toso’s Ph.D program and now revised, explores the importance of character development in our educational system by connecting relevant research and models.

Educating for Character – Keeping the Conversation Alive
Eric Friedman, principal of Babylon Memorial Grade School (2008 National School of Character), discusses the first steps his school took on their journey to character education excellence. He includes a list of suggested collaborative reads for committees to use as they learn together.