Character education involves specific, targeted efforts to communicate and integrate into the lives of children and youth widely shared, core character qualities (e.g. caring, citizenship, fairness, respect, responsibility, trustworthiness). A school and larger education community committed to character education explicitly names and publicly stands for specific core character qualities like these, shares the qualities among members of the school and community, defines them in terms of behaviors that can be observed, practices them, studies and discusses them, and honors them by holding all representatives of school and community accountable to standards of conduct consistent with the qualities.