News Turning Jobs Into Public Work Professor Meira Levinson's "Dilemmas of Educational Ethics" is reviewed Posted December 1, 2016 By Meira Levinson "The new collection edited by Meira Levinson and Jacob Jay, Dilemmas of Educational Ethics, illuminates democratic stirrings. Levinson, professor of education at Harvard, wrote the highly regarded No Citizen Left Behind about empowering civic education practices in K-12 schools. It is also useful to note some limits of the collection. The last half century has seen loss of public purposes in research, increasing fragmentation of disciplines, privatized teaching, and weakening of relationships which connect educators to publics outside their institutions: evisceration of work for public purposes; work by publics; and work that takes place in public fashion. All played a crucial if little noted role in disempowerment of democracy educators and the rise of the anti-public political movement..." Read more at Education Week News The latest research, perspectives, and highlights from the Harvard Graduate School of Education Explore All Articles Related Articles Usable Knowledge The Questionable Ethics of College Students How cultivating a sense of responsibility in the student body can help to combat academic dishonesty. News A Critical Evaluation of Educational Ethics With her EdEthics project, Professor Meira Levinson is striving to bring conversations around ethics in education to the fore Usable Knowledge Mindfulness and Screen Time Writing new terms of engagement for how we approach our connected lives.