Reasearch on the Latest Development of American Character Education

Character education was once unstressed in America, but since the 1990s, it has come to be the main current of moral education in American school. In the recent years, people have reconsidered the concept of character education, thinking that it can be understood as part of the comprehensive educational reforms , whose focus is to emphasize a good social relationship and build a social community caring for each other. Factors to stimulate character education include as follows: respect and care for the students; examples of positive role; self - development opportunity for the students and the taking part of the parents and the communities etc.