Harlem Globetrotters press for teaching of values
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Harlem Globetrotters, known for putting some real characters on the basketball court, are on a mission to educate schoolchildren about a different kind of character -- positive traits like citizenship, respect and responsibility.
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The famous basketball team joined Education Secretary Rod Paige on Wednesday in announcing a character-education effort designed to reach more than 50,000 elementary school students.
Globetrotter players are expected to visit at least 150 schools, where they will demonstrate their ball-handling skills and talk to students about cooperation, honesty and effort.
"We must fight today's culture of callousness," Paige said. "We have to teach tolerance, but not tolerate the absence of positive values. Millions of students are taught the wrong values, or no values at all. So we have our work cut out for us."
A federal education law approved in 2001 calls for character education to be integrated into class instruction and extracurricular activities. States and school districts nationwide have shaped their own programs aimed at fostering ethics and civic engagement among students.
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