Also on the table are Republican-favored education proposals like school vouchers, character education and charter schools.

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And he wants to encourage responsible parenting by strengthening character education in the nation's schools, distributing money to voluntary groups that promote fatherhood and marriage education.

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We use the nationally recognized Project Wisdom Character Education program and the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) system to teach students how to make good choices and be rewarded for such choices.

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Cheating rates rise through middle school and by high school, 51% of students admit to cheating on a test in the past year, and 74% say they have copied another student's homework, according to a 2012 survey of 23, 000 high-school students by the Josephson Institute of Ethics, in Los Angeles, a nonprofit character-education organization.

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She will increase the prestige, quality of education and, most importantly, the character of the leaders who as commissioned Coast Guard officers will ultimately lead our Service while protecting the Nation from threats on the sea, protecting people who use the sea, and protecting the sea itself.

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The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors -- or DREAM -- Act, would create a path to citizenship for immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children under the age of 16 and have lived in the United States for at least five years, obtained a high school or General Education Development diploma, and demonstrated "good moral character, " the White House said.

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Rather, their early education leads to long-term improvements in "noncognitive" skills, boosting character traits such as self-control and conscientiousness.

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Her character, Billie Dawn, the ditzy showgirl mistress of a corrupt businessman, who gets an education in the course of the play, was first defined by Judy Holliday, onstage in 1946 and then in an Oscar-winning film performance in 1950.

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