Horace Mann advocated that a primary social goal of schooling is to provide moral instruction to children in order to reduce the crime rate. Today, prominent social goals of school are to promote morals and character education, to improve children’s health and nutrition and to also create school communities through extracurricular activities, after-school programs and school spirit (Spring, 2018). Many initiatives have been designed to promote the social goals of school, ranging from character education programs, programs designed to educate us on bullying, and cyberbullying, programs designed to improve school nutrition, programs designed to prevent drug and alcohol abuse, and extracurricular activities.

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Directions: 

Write a paper (1,500-1,750 words) in which you identify and discuss three initiatives designed to promote social goals in American K-12 education. Include the following in your paper:

1. An explanation of each initiative, along with what the initiative is intended to achieve.
2. A discussion of the benefits and drawbacks of the program.
3. As an educational leader, what new strategies will you implement to achieve these social goals? (Note: references for these strategies will support the theory of the strategies but not the strategies themselves since they will new and will not have been tried yet)