Focusing on issues surrounding the unauthorized copying of software, this pamphlet is particularly concerned with the illegality of such action and the necessity for educators to respect the intellectual work and property of others. Some relevant facts about unauthorized copying of software are followed by a statement of principle about…

This working paper is one in a series of policy statements on the relationship between liberal education and careers in business; it covers a seminar discussing ethics and the teaching of morality. Papers given by seven professionals in the corporate and academic world are included. After an introduction to the seminar and a statement on corporate…

Textbook censorship cases from Tennessee and Alabama have been brought before the U.S. Supreme Court. In east Tennessee, fundamentalist families objected to a 1983 Holt, Rinehart, and Winston reading series for grades 1-8. Federal District Judge Thomas G. Hull held that Hawkins County Schools had violated the families' First Amendment rights and…

Evaluation errors may be unintentional, caused by incompetence, or intentional caused by mendacity. This report is concerned, not with incompetence, but with the production of educational assessments flawed by an evaluator's deceit. The purposes of the paper are: (1) to identify conditions under which people purposely distort evaluation reports,…

The new work ethic involves many questions for company training programs if they want to hold onto a restless younger generation. (Author/BP)

Censorship of children's books is a fairly recent phenomenon. (JH)

Elaborates on the ethical responsibility of the rhetorical critic and teacher. The role that moral values play in the criticism process are examined in the literature, history and philosophy disciplines. (MH)

This study is a follow-up of an unpublished dissertation study completed in 1964 focusing on the moral attitudes that adolescents develop through interaction with the adult community as well as their peer groups. (Author/RK)

The article proposes the idea of an "ethic of community" to extend the ethical frames typically used in education, arguing that this expansion of ethical frames is important for achieving the moral purposes of educational leadership in 21st century schools. It defines ethic of community as the "moral responsibility to engage in…

Encouraging schools to shoulder the responsibility of teaching personal ethics, these authors outline various teaching methods for the study of ethical questions. (Editor)

Condensed from "Think, published by IBM, Volume 34 (September-October 1968, 3-7

Research supported by Public Health Service Fellowship 1-F1-MH-30, 101-01A1 (MTLH), and based on a PhD dissertation (University of California, Berkeley, 1967)