Education Reports
NAIS/IGE Schools of Integrity Initiative
Many NAIS secondary schools are actively creating ethical learning communities, where core values are at the foundation of all academics and the goal is to graduate responsible global citizens. While these schools pride themselves on academic achievement, they are frequently distinguished by their rich, values-driven cultures. Attention to the moral, ethical, and values-based dimensions of their students was often a motivating impetus in establishing these schools.
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Taking Responsibility
This report by the Maine Department of Education, represents the work of Maine's Commission on Ethical and Responsible Student Behavior, cochaired by Institute founder and president Rushworth Kidder. Taking Responsibility helps communities develop standards by suggesting processes and programs for long-term changes in attitudes, structures, and climate in our schools.
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Reaching Out
In March 2000, the Cummings Foundation funded the Institute for Global Ethics to develop and carry out a survey of hundreds of students from four-year colleges across the United States. In collaboration with the Gallup Organization, the survey probed the relationship between students' moral reasoning and their thoughts about the environment, paying particular attention to their attitudes toward taking action on behalf of the environment. Results of the project are described in the report "Reaching Out: Broadening College-Student Constituencies for Environmental Protection."
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Leadership and Core Values
In 1998, the Steering Committee for the Illinois Community Colleges Leadership and Core Values Initiative contracted with the Institute for Global Ethics to develop a questionnaire that could be used in the community colleges and with the general population of the state of Illinois. All 48 colleges participated. While the community-college population was being sampled, IGE also contracted with the Gallup Organization to survey the general population of Illinois. Results of the project are described in the report "Leadership and Core Values: The People of Illinois and their Community Colleges."
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Strengthening and Supporting Service-Learning Objectives
A four-year project funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation in 1996 to develop and demonstrate a methodology that incorporates a values-based orientation and reflection component into a selected number of service-learning programs across the country. The curriculm resulting from this project, Ethics & Service, focuses on the intersection of ethics and service learning for middle- and high-school classrooms.
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