Teachers and ethics

Berlatsky, Noah, (editor.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780737775327 (hardcover)
ISBN: 0737775327 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9780737775334 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0737775335 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
228 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Farmington Hills, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2016]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-213) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

What are ethical issues surrounding teachers and unions? -- Teachers' unions can be a force for social justice / Jesse Hagopian and John Green -- Teachers' unions hurt America / John Hawkins -- Teachers' unions help students / Susan Troller -- Teachers' unions hurt students / Akash Chougule -- Teachers' unions are not evil, just out of date / Arthur Levine -- Teachers and public employees have the right to strike / Michael Hiltzik -- Teachers have a duty of care to their pupils and that is why they should never go on strike / Melanie Phillips -- What are ethical issues surrounding teachers' working conditions? -- Teach For America is unethical / Sandra Y.L. Korn -- Treatment of college adjunct professors is ethical / Eric Charles -- Hit 'em where it hurts / Rebecca Schuman -- A teacher's perspective: firing day at a charter school / Nancy Bloom -- Tenure protects high school teachers who should be fired / Teachers Union Exposed -- What are ethical issues surrounding testing? -- Teachers take an ethical stand against testing / Chicago Teachers Union -- Teachers unions sacrifice high standards to evade accountability / Hanna Skandera and Kevin Huffman -- Opposition to testing is well intentioned but unorganized / Laura McKenna -- Teachers cheat on tests as a reaction to poor education policy / Robert Prentice -- Tying teacher bonus pay to test scores can be done fairly / Matt Amaral -- Tying teacher pay to test scores is bad policy / Bernie Froese-Germain -- What are ethical issues for teachers outside the classroom? -- Ethically, teachers must restrict their speech on social media / Joseph M. Yeager -- Restricting teachers' speech on social media is ethically dangerous / Ilana Gershon -- It is ethical for colleges to punish teachers for comments on social media / Cary Nelson -- Why the "unhiring" of Steven Salaita is a threat to academic freedom / David Palumbo-Liu -- Students and teachers should not be friends / Rick Wormeli -- Friendships between teachers and students are ethical / Amy Shuffelton -- College teachers should be allowed to date students / Laura Kipnis -- College teachers dating students is unethical / C.T. May.