Character Under Attack: & what You Can Do about it

Carl Sommer

Advance Pub., 2004 - Education - 95 pages

Discover Why... Violent criminal activity, rates of imprisonment, school crime, sexually transmitted disease, teenage pregnancy, and suicide are escalating throughout America. In a nation that has drifted far from its core moral system, Carl Sommer's hard-hitting expose reveals the underlying causes and offers solutions for improving America's education and moral climate. Sommer, an award-winning author and educator, addresses the issues of moral relativism, the rise of anticulturalism, and the philosophical battle raging behind the lack of character in today's society of diminishing values. Character Under Attack examines the issues and provides practical advice on how parents and educators can create a more respectful society and produce successful children prepared to make this world a better place. Recognizing the spirit in which our Founding Fathers established this great nation, you'll discover from this well-documented book what went wrong and what you can do about it.

Contents

• Acknowledgment: 5
• Information Age: 18
• Censorship: 33

About the author

Carl Sommer was born in 1933. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War, and at age 40, he became a New York City public high school teacher. Sommer attended Oswego State University, City College of New York, and New York University, before becoming an assistant dean of boys in a high school with 3,600 pupils where he counseled students and parents. His has worked as a substitute teacher at every grade level in twenty-seven different schools in all of the boroughs of New York City. Identifying the problems and needs of Americas students, he proceeded to craft solutions. His exhaustive ten-year study, including a one-year leave of absence from teaching, led to his first book published in 1986, Schools in Crisis: Training for Success or Failure? Sommer then turned to publishing, and while he still felt there was a need for resolutions to the problems within education, he felt that he could help that by helping the children. So he began to write children's books. Sommer created the award-winning Another Sommer-Time Story series of childrens books which impart values and principles of success to younger children; Reading Success, an adult phonics literature-based reading program; Reading Adventure, a children phonics literature-based reading program; and Number Success, a complete practical mathematics series from addition to trigonometry which will consist of 47 teaching videos. The Another Sommer-Time Story Series has been selected as finalist in the Teachers' Choice Awards given by Learning Magazine. The Ugly Caterpillar received the Benjamin Franklin Award for being the best children's picture book, and Mayor For A Day received Today's Librarian award for best children's picture book. His concern for character in American and schools led him to write his most recent book, Character Under Attack. Sommer himself has been nominated for the prestigious International Writer of the Year for 2003 Award by the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England. He has written over 60 books. Sommer has appeared on radio and television shows, including the Oprah Winfrey Show. He also served on the Texas State Board of Education Review Committee and taught a Junior Achievement economics course at Prague University, in the Czech Republic. Sommer is the founder and president of Advance Publishing, Inc., MediaONE Productions, and Reliable EDM, Inc.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Character Under Attack: & what You Can Do about it; Texas authors
• Author: Carl Sommer
• Publisher: Advance Pub., 2004
• ISBN: 1575373505, 9781575373508
• Length: 95 pages
• Subjects: Education / Aims & Objectives; Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General; Education / General; Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy