A call for character education and prayer in the schools
By: William Jeynes ; foreword by William J. Murray.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780313351037; 9780313351044
Subjects: Moral education -- United States; Prayer in the public schools -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Do American students need prayer and moral education returned to public school?; title: The schools of educational philosophy; title: Prayer in the school and moral education in America prior to the Revolutionary War; title: Character education during the post-revolutionary war period; title: Prayer and moral education in the eyes of the founders of the modern day public school; title: The practice of character education from the mid-1800s until 1962; title: The new philosophy of education beginning in 1962 and 1963; title: America has lost its way: school shootings; title: A nation without absolute values; title: Most of America's more problems are not economic and academic in nature; title: What we can do to restore character education and resurrect religious freedom in America.