HOUSTON — A viewer concerned about restarting in person teaching sent us a screenshot with the question: "Has it occurred to anyone that we will basically be violating the Texas Educators' Code of ...

Students often know the right thing to do. How can schools help them to do it? The numbers are in and they don't look good." That was the assessment of the Josephson Institute of Ethics last October, ...

"Teaching Ethics: A Key Role for Educators" is a new print-on-demand compilation of articles discussing a range of institutions and approaches. This compilation, the latest in a series of such ...

I remember watching the 1991 gulf war on television while I was working toward my Ph.D. in philosophy at Brown University. On philosophical grounds, I concluded that the war was justified. My study of ...

State Representative Mark Finchem failed this year to implement a teacher code of ethics that appeared to have been lifted directly from a far-right campaign. Finchem’s bill, HB 2002, did not get a ...

Student safety, student behavior, and student learning are a trio of educator responsibilities. Educators have always operated within and held students to a standard of behavior memorialized in a code ...

The new fall semester is upon us, and at elite private colleges and universities, it’s hard to find a trendier major than Computer Science. It’s also becoming more common for such institutions to ...

How can each generation do better than the one that came before? What does “doing better” even mean? These questions are at the heart of all parents’ decisions about their children, at the core of ...

Based on our experience in teaching ethics, we have developed, tested, and presented in this article a program of instruction that rests on four pillars: popular feature films, a six-stage ethical ...

Why do people lie, cheat and steal? Why do “good” people do bad things – actions they know they shouldn’t take and do anyway? How much of someone’s antisocial behavior is the result of individual ...

Ethics is under attack. Headline after headline citing conflicts of interests from incoming elected officials, allegations of unpatriotic behavior as well as allegations of inappropriate behavior from ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to make traditional Japanese ethics a formal school subject beginning in 2018. Here's a look back at the history of ethics education in Japan. Photo: Getty ...