Dr. Meira Levinson

Dr. Meira Levinson is a normative political philosopher, writer, and Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Meira joins Justin Reich to discuss an emerging field of educational ethics, what that means in the classroom, and just how nontrivial that can be in practice. “So as you start sort of peeling back the onion of the data, you think... I don't know if it's even possible to compare this charter with this district in terms of quality. And on the other hand, in some ways, we need to, right?”

Educational Ethics in practice
System vs. Teacher level / Teacher Demoralization
Scenarios of ethical dilemmas for teachers
Massachusetts Charter School expansion
Ethics of Technology and Data in Education
justiceinschools.org / Bringing their work into practice
Discovering differences in values

About Our Guest: Dr. Meira Levinson

Dr. Meira Levinson is a normative political philosopher, writer, and Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She writes about civic education, multiculturalism, youth empowerment, and educational ethics. In doing so, she draws upon scholarship from multiple disciplines as well as her eight years of experience teaching in the Atlanta and Boston Public Schools. Her most recent books include the co-edited Making Civics Count (Harvard Education Press, 2012) and No Citizen Left Behind (Harvard University Press, 2012). In 2013, No Citizen Left Behind was awarded the Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association, the Exemplary Research in Social Studies Award from the National Council for the Social Studies, and a Critics Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association. It also won the 2014 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award. Levinson fosters civic education scholarship at Harvard as co-convener of HGSE's Civic and Moral Education Initiative.

Additional Resources for Teachers and other Listeners

Read Meira Levinson’s No Citizen Left Behind along with several other publications

available on Amazon

Learn more about Meira Levinson’s work the Harvard Graduate School of Education

Transcript

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