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Abstract

Double Standard was created by the actors who appeared in the accompanying video in spring 2014, as part fulfillment of the requirements for a master’s-level class highlighting ethics in education for future educational administrators. A double standard comes into focus as an incoming middle school principal establishes procedures she associates with a well-run school. The White principal insists that lesson plans be submitted for review and applies a double standard in deciding that one Black teacher should be penalized—ostensibly because of her failure to turn in lesson plans—while another White teacher who does not turn in lesson plans is treated leniently. In the process, the principal pressures her White assistant principal to comply with her actions.

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educational leadership ethics teacher evaluation school culture video-enriched

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