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Snapshot: This case explores the dilemmas that emerge when students in Portland, Oregon walk out of school to protest the election of Donald Trump. Case Description: High school and middle school students across the United States are engaging in...

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...

One of the goals of Justice in Schools is to promote the use of normative case studies as a powerful tool for teaching about and reflecting on challenge ethical dilemmas in the practice of education. The following collection of syllabi come from...

Justice in Schools (JiS) is designed to affirm that ethics matter, and then to help educators and policymakers reason through the ethical dilemmas they face. JiS doesn’t necessarily provide answers. Rather, Justice in Schools helps educators and policy...

Snapshot: In this case study, a middle school principal in Canada faces a firestorm when he allows students in his majority-Muslim school to conduct Friday prayers in the school cafeteria. In the public school system of a multicultural democracy, where is...

Ethics & Educational Leadership Join us for two case discussions about dilemmas in educational leadership Educational leaders face increasingly complex challenges as they seek to navigate political polarization, community disagreement, and changing state...

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: 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...

Snapshot: Conspiracy theories play an increasingly important and often highly problematic role in political debates in liberal democracies. As a student at a German high school becomes deeply immersed in the world of conspiracy theories in the wake of the...

Snapshot: This first episode of a video podcast series, produced in partnership with the Ethical Schools podcast, includes a dramatized version of our case "Taking the Action Out of Civics?" along with a discussion of the case led by Professor Meira...

Teaching Social Justice - Engaging Anti-Racist and Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws in Education with Normative Case Study and Authentic Dialogues The purpose of this workshop is to guide participants (administrators, practitioners, and researchers) through the practices...