TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jeynes,William H
TI  - A Call for Character Education and Prayer in the Schools
SN  - 9780313351037
AV  - LC311.J59.J496 2009 
KW  - Religious Factors
KW  - Classroom Environment
KW  - Educational Administration
KW  - Educational Change
KW  - Elementary Secondary Education
KW  - Curriculum
KW  - Teaching Methods
KW  - Surveys
KW  - Individual Development
KW  - Values Education
KW  - School Prayer
KW  - Personality
KW  - Crime
KW  - Public Schools
KW  - Ethical Instruction
N1  - Elementary Secondary Education; 2
N2  - This book offers an examination of the related topics of school prayer and character education in the United States, advocating for their return to public schools. In 1962 and 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court made rulings that removed prayer and Bible reading from public schools. But in the aftermath of the rulings, the nation endured one of the worst and longest sustained increases in juvenile crime in its history. Is there a connection? According to William Jeynes, the lack of both school prayer and consistent moral instruction in our schools has had devastating consequences both for our education system and for the nation as a whole. In "a Call for Character Education and Prayer in the Schools", Jeynes makes a compelling case for restoring moral instruction and nonspecific religious moments to the classroom as a way of restoring a much needed moral grounding in American society in general. "A Call for Character Education and Prayer in the Schools" traces the history of character education in the public schools, including coverage of leading advocates of their inclusion from Thomas Jefferson to DeWitt Clinton to Horace Mann. Jeynes then offers a broad survey of the country since the Supreme Court decisions of 1962 and 1963, asserting that most of America's greatest problems are moral in nature, and could be addressed by making moral instruction and a focus on the spiritual a part of our young citizens' school lives. [Foreword by William J. Murray
ER  -