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A Forced Reckoning

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A group of Harvard University students learn the history of Professor Louis Agassiz, whose research and theories justified the institution of slavery, highlighting the university’s ties with enslavement. Each student grapples with how to react to the...

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.

What Would You Do?: Seeing Green

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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...

A Uniform Decision: Community and Commemoration in Public School

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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...

Something in the Water: Controversial Issues and Competitive Debate

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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...

Course Correction: Teaching Critical Consciousness in an Anti-CRT State

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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...

High School at the Coal-Face

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Snapshot: In this case from Australia, a high school principal in a regional town is seeking community input on a sponsorship arrangement with the local coal mining company—how should he lead his school through the sponsorship evaluation process while...

A Parallel Universe: Conspiracy Theories and the Limits of Education

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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...

Photo Bomb: Responding to Online Transgressions

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Snapshot: A pair of seventh graders in Madrid take a topless photo of a female classmate using WhatsApp and forward it to the rest of the class. This case asks teachers and families to think about dilemmas that arise when underage students at home misuse...

Feeling Exposed in Online Class: Safety in the Virtual Civics Classroom

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Snapshot: This case from the Netherlands explores the challenges of organizing a safe space for discussion in the online civics classroom. Should teachers refrain from inviting students to share their opinions, feelings and concerns online because they...