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In Loco Parentis: The Ethics of Dismissal at Boarding School

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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...

Private Equity

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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...

A Change of Plan?

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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. 

On the Merge

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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? 

First Rate

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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? 

The (De)Merits of Discipline

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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...