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, ...

Educational Testing Service (ETS) has launched ProEthica, an online ethics training program for educators and teachers in training. "Through a series of interactive modules that combine instruction ...

If you read Teacher Beat with any regularity, then you know that I often make the point that rules for teachers and other educators vary greatly by state. This extends to misconduct, a topic that’s ...

A newly released code of ethics for teachers could help provide some clarity across the mishmash of state rules. The National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification last ...

New Hampshire has new Codes of Ethics and Conduct for educators. The Department of Education says the codes revolve around "four core principles" established by legislation in 2017: "Responsibility to ...

A nine-member Alaska commission is proposing to revise parts of the statewide educator code of ethics, including broadening the definition of sexual misconduct and adding language forbidding the ...

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 ...

The language of an Arizona legislator’s proposed educator code of ethics restricting teachers from engaging in political advocacy in the classroom was lifted from a campaign by a far-right ...