Character Education Partnership
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The Character Education Partnership (CEP) is an advocacy group for character education
based in Washington, D.C.
It is a "nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonsectarian, coalition of organizations and individuals committed to fostering effective character education in our nation's K-12 schools." CEP's mission is "Leading the nation in helping schools develop people of good character for a just and compassionate society." A commentary in the November 14, 2007 edition of Education Week
stated that "Just about anything can be called character education these days", whereas "Schools serious about helping students form good character rely heavily on CEP's 11 Principles of Effective Character Education.".
CEP is an umbrella organization for character education, encouraging schools to create educational environments that foster ethical, responsible, and caring young people. The organization works with schools, districts, and states to foster core ethical values such as caring, honesty, fairness, responsibility, and respect for self and others. Rather than instructing schools and districts to use a particular set of core values in their character education initiative, CEP leads key stakeholders in these organizations through the process of consensus-building. They help schools and districts determine the core values that best suit their needs as learning communities.
Through its National Schools of Character Awards program, CEP recognizes public and private schools and districts (K-12) as National Schools of Character for their outstanding achievements in character education. Winning schools and districts receive a grant, which they are required to use both to continue their character education program and to conduct outreach to other schools working to implement quality character education. Schools are selected as winners based on their efforts to implement character education programs that include CEP's "Eleven Principles of Effective Character Education" and provide a useful example for other schools to follow.
States offering character education programs have worked together with the Character Education Partnership to establish new programs and to recognize achievements in the area, with New Jersey's Governor noting the organization's efforts to help "young people to learn honesty, respect and responsibility". In September 2007, the Massachusetts Department of Education announced that it was working with the Partnership to recognize "outstanding work in character education".
Character education
Character education is an umbrella term loosely used to describe the teaching of children in a manner that will help them develop variously as moral, civic, good, mannered, behaved, non-bullying, healthy, critical, successful, traditional, compliant and/ or socially acceptable beings...
based in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
It is a "nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonsectarian, coalition of organizations and individuals committed to fostering effective character education in our nation's K-12 schools." CEP's mission is "Leading the nation in helping schools develop people of good character for a just and compassionate society." A commentary in the November 14, 2007 edition of Education Week
Education Week
Education Week is a United States national newspaper covering K-12 education. It is published by Editorial Projects in Education , a non-profit organization, which is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland...
stated that "Just about anything can be called character education these days", whereas "Schools serious about helping students form good character rely heavily on CEP's 11 Principles of Effective Character Education.".
CEP is an umbrella organization for character education, encouraging schools to create educational environments that foster ethical, responsible, and caring young people. The organization works with schools, districts, and states to foster core ethical values such as caring, honesty, fairness, responsibility, and respect for self and others. Rather than instructing schools and districts to use a particular set of core values in their character education initiative, CEP leads key stakeholders in these organizations through the process of consensus-building. They help schools and districts determine the core values that best suit their needs as learning communities.
Through its National Schools of Character Awards program, CEP recognizes public and private schools and districts (K-12) as National Schools of Character for their outstanding achievements in character education. Winning schools and districts receive a grant, which they are required to use both to continue their character education program and to conduct outreach to other schools working to implement quality character education. Schools are selected as winners based on their efforts to implement character education programs that include CEP's "Eleven Principles of Effective Character Education" and provide a useful example for other schools to follow.
States offering character education programs have worked together with the Character Education Partnership to establish new programs and to recognize achievements in the area, with New Jersey's Governor noting the organization's efforts to help "young people to learn honesty, respect and responsibility". In September 2007, the Massachusetts Department of Education announced that it was working with the Partnership to recognize "outstanding work in character education".