A Skewed Endorsement

Type: Article
Topics: Ethics, School Administrator Magazine

June 01, 2026

Ethical Educator

Illustration of person with nose pinned shut holding stinky book, with text showingScenario: A few years ago, a superintendent self-published a book about leading others in a school organization and asked a friend, also a superintendent, to buy a copy and review it on Amazon. The friend found reading the book to be rather torturous but could not bring herself to tell the author. Instead, because of the friendship, she wrote a positive review at some cost to her self-respect. Now the superintendent has written another book and came to her friend with the same request for a review. How ought she proceed?

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The Ethical Educator panel consists of 

  • Sheldon H. Berman, author of Implementing Social-Emotional Learning: Insights from School Districts’ Successes and Setbacks.
  • Susan Enfield, executive director, University of Washington’s Center for Educational Leadership, Seattle, Wash.
  • Arthur Schwartz, president, .
  • Maria G. Ott, Irving R. and Virginia A. Melbo chair in education administration, University of Southern California.

Each month, School Administrator draws on actual circumstances to raise an ethical decision-making dilemma in K-12 education. Our distinguished panelists provide their own resolutions to each dilemma.

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