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Snapshot: A school principal is asked to respond to growing numbers of parents opting their children out of state tests. How should she balance these parents’ concerns with other parent viewpoints supporting assessment, her own professional obligations...

Snapshot: When holding a student back a year may mean she drops out of school, should her teachers promote her to the next grade level - even if they don't believe she's mastered the skills she'll need to succeed? Justice in Schools has prodcued a new...

Snapshot: When national examinations in England were canceled during the Covid-19 pandemic, policy makers were tasked with deciding the fairest way to allocate student grades in their place. This case explores the ethical trade-offs involved in that...

Justice in Schools began in 2012, and will likely be actively under development until at least 2017. It is organized around a set of intensively-researched, normative case studies of classroom-level, school-level, and district-level decisions about...

Challenges of Mandated Reporting A teacher grapples with when corporal punishment crosses the line into child abuse and whether or not reporting her suspicions is the right decision in either case. Gender Identity and Student Support A student in a...

Snapshot: In a world of increasingly competitive college admissions, more and more one grade may well make the difference between acceptance and rejection. Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, grade inflation is widespread. How should teachers respond? Fight...

Snapshot: Should a student who skipped school be allowed to make up missing work? This case explores dilemmas that arise when academic consequences are linked to behavioral infractions. How can schools discourage dangerous behavior without endangering...

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...

Snapshot: In this case study, Arlington, VA, faced criticism from teachers and parents when the district announced a plan to make homework more equitable by eliminating deadlines and other requirements. How can schools address inequalities in the...

Snapshot: In England, Tate Academy, part of a chain of schools in a Multi-Academy Trust serving a sizable Muslim population, faces growing Islamophobia among its largely White, non-Muslim student body. When graffiti inspired by the Charlie Hedbo cartoons...

Allison Stevens Prior to joining the PhD program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Allison Stevens taught social studies in Mustang, Oklahoma. As a teacher, her work centered on creating humanizing curricula for students in America’s heartland...