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School Value Systems

Many favor schools that support a value system. What, no values? What, support a school that is amoral?

No, there are other ways to look at matters. Think again. A value system does NOT need to be just "Christian" or "religious."

Modern literacies

An overarching component of 21st centry literacies is a value system concerned primarily with our treatment of information: it's rapidly increasing power and it's rising qualities as property.

David F. Warlick, author of "Raw Materials for the Mind, writes, "Without these values, information skills have the potential to be dangerous to others."