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Snapshot: In 2020, the Kenyan government declared that secondary school would be mandatory for all—effective immediately. In response to pushback about the impracticality of immediate 100% transition, the Cabinet Secretary for Education defiantly declared...

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: 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: A principal in Australia considers how to approach an upcoming holiday commemorating a World War I battle, given the large number of both defence veterans and asylum seekers from war-torn nations in his community. How should schools celebrate...

Snapshot: Facing community pushback and a new state law prohibiting teaching “critical race theory,” a middle school principal must decide whether to run a critical consciousness course for students. While student polling shows that the school climate has...

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: At an independent boarding school, a development officer who also serves as a mentor in the dorm must balance competing values as she decides what to do after witnessing her mentee engaged in sexual activity with a classmate. School policy...

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...