Justice in Schools
EdEthics Spotlight
Polarization Micro-Dilemmas
In order to foster productive and respectful dialogue related to the upcoming US election, the EdEthics team has created brand-new bespoke resources and has curated additional open-access resources. One of the key new resources that you will find are...
Past to Present Summer Institute
Past to Present: Teaching the History & Legacies of Enslavement and Facilitating Classroom Conversations on Complex Topics This free, week-long summer institute established a robust learning community and space to share among educational professionals...
Multimedia Case: Promotion vs. Retention
Snapshot: This award-winning multimedia version of our case "Promotion vs. Retention" allows you to choose which role you'll play on the teaching team at Innovation Academy and includes a variety of multimedia resources to help you decide whether to...
Justice in Schools works to promote educational ethics through...
Educational Ethics
Calling attention to dilemmas of educational ethics facing educators and policy makers
Case Studies
Developing empirically-informed normative case studies to foster critical ethical reflection
Scholarly Community
Linking educators, researchers, and philosophers working on issues of educational ethics
Justice in Schools creates and distributes resources to help educators and policy makers develop their capacity to understandand and challenge dilemmas of educational ethics
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Recent Case Studies
Going Public
Snapshot: Seeking to offer enrollment to students from a local urban center, suburban Eastport Public Schools faces pushback. Community members express concern for the safety of incoming students of color, citing a lack of explicit equity training for...
What Would You Do?: Seeing Green
Snapshot: This second episode of a video podcast series, produced in partnership with the Ethical Schools podcast, includes a dramatized version of our case "Seeing Green" along with a discussion of the case led by Professor Meira Levinson. Should science...
The (De)Merits of Discipline
Snapshot: A teacher in a charter school must decide how to respond when she witnesses a colleague harshly reprimanding a student in class; while her colleague’s behavior isn’t out of line with the school’s strict discipline code, she herself relies more...
Latest News
Multimedia Case "Promotion vs. Retention" wins 2021 International E-Learning Award
has selected the multimedia case "Promotion vs. Retention: A Dilemma in Educational Ethics" as a winner in their annual contest. The E-Learning Awards are given for the best work in e-learning, mobile learning, and blended learning. You can find the award...
Meira Levinson sits down with the Ethical Schools podcast to discuss normative case studies
How can normative case studies help us reflect on the ethical challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic? Find out here! From the Ethical Schools podcast: "We speak with Meira Levinson, Professor of Education at Harvard, about her website justiceinschools...