# The Full Collection of Justice in Schools Case Studies Sort & Filters close ## Filters Level expand\_more - 9-12 (26) - Higher Education (4) - K-8 (18) - K-12 (27) Topic expand\_more - Assessment (6) - Civics (14) - College (3) - Curriculum (14) - Democracy (4) - District Leaders (9) - Elementary School (5) - High School (13) - International (12) - Middle School (7) - Rural (4) - School Leaders (19) - Suburban (4) - Urban (4) - Discipline (13) - Gender (5) - Health (1) - Policy (27) - Politics (19) - Sex Education (2) - Teachers (29) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 46 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by NewestOldestAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-A sort list grid\_view ## 46 results [### In Loco Parentis: The Ethics of Dismissal at Boarding School ](/loco-parentis-ethics-dismissal-boarding-school)A disciplinary committee at a small, prestigious, independent boarding school must decide the consequences of a student’s disciplinary infraction. To complicate matters, the student is facing challenging family circumstances, her family makes significant... ![Vast forest](/sites/g/files/omnuum3616/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/JiS%20case%20images%20%287%29.png?itok=IU7ZyVqa) [### Private Equity ](/private-equity)During the COVID-19 global pandemic, the Mexican government closed all schools and transitioned to the distance-learning program. This led to a drop in private school enrollment, and private schools and families requested the government for financial... ![school children with Mexican flag](/sites/g/files/omnuum3616/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Private%20Equity%20Inter.png?itok=nO3hOp3Y) [### A Change of Plan? ](/change-plan-0)An eighth-grade civics teacher in Massachusetts struggles to balance respecting student autonomy and creating a safe classroom community as students complete civic action projects about contentious political issues. ![Protest signs in front of the US capital building](/sites/g/files/omnuum3616/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/JiS%20case%20images.png?itok=XAAQYxQN) [### On the Merge ](/merge)A school board member in a rural district must decide whether to vote to merge the district’s two high schools, thus closing down a beloved school with close community ties. What will best serve the students in her district? ![School yard](/sites/g/files/omnuum3616/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/JiS%20case%20images%20%281%29.png?itok=NlwE3r_n) [### First Rate ](/first-rate-case)An elementary-school principal new to her district must decide how to evaluate a beloved veteran teacher who struggles with the instructional core. What makes for quality teaching—and how do we measure it? ![First Rate Dilemmas in Teacher Evaluation Title](/sites/g/files/omnuum3616/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/JiS%20case%20images.png?itok=qZ0plITt) [### What Would You Do?: Seeing Green ](/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... ![Smokestack](/sites/g/files/omnuum3616/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/playpen/files/seeing_green_thumbnail.png?itok=iE30qbgo) [### The (De)Merits of Discipline ](/demerits-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... ![uniform rows of folding chairs on a grass field](/sites/g/files/omnuum3616/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/playpen/files/demerits_of_discipline_case_card.png?itok=4P33zzFJ) [### Keeping It Private: Challenges of Boarding School Mentorship ](/keeping-it-private) 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... ![brick wall covered with ivy](/sites/g/files/omnuum3616/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/playpen/files/keeping_it_private.png?itok=EUnxoMbW) [### A Uniform Decision: Community and Commemoration in Public School ](/uniform-decision) 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... ![rows of dominos and red flowers](/sites/g/files/omnuum3616/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/a%20uniform%20decision%20international.png?itok=HEKK9GW5) [### No Laughing Matter: Can Showing Religiously Sensitive Cartoons in the Classroom Ever Be Justified? ](/no-laughing-matter) 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... ![colorful graffiti on the wall](/sites/g/files/omnuum3616/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/no%20laughing%20matter%20international.png?itok=qaYIh6sf) [### Remote Control: Blurred Boundaries in the Zoom Classroom ](/remote-control) Snapshot: As schools across the United States rely on virtual instruction for some—or even all—instructional time, they continue to grapple with dilemmas initially raised during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this fictional case, members of a fourth-grade... ![parent helping child on laptop](/sites/g/files/omnuum3616/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/playpen/files/remote_control.png?itok=UMUU25du) [### Something in the Water: Controversial Issues and Competitive Debate ](/something-water) Snapshot: In Memphis, TN, debate coaches are surprised when the school district informs them that they’re not allowed to use national resources that tackle questions of environmental racism by examining lead in the water supply. While the district wishes... ![water flowing into hands with brown skin](/sites/g/files/omnuum3616/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/playpen/files/something_in_the_water_final.png?itok=b2_gJo1g) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Last page 4 ](?page=3 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")