I went to high school in the USA, in the 2000s, so it has been roughly twenty years. I attended a public highschool, that wasn’t particularly well-funded nor impoverished. There were no ethics or philosophy courses offered. There was not education on moral philosophy, aside from that which is gained through literature in an English class (such as reading Lord of the Flies or Fahrenheit 451 or To Kill a Mockingbird).
There is a Facebook group for EA Education, but my impression is that it isn’t very active.
My (uninformed, naïve) guess is that this isn’t very tractable, because education tends to be controlled by the government and there are a lot of vested interests. The argument would basically be “why should we teach these kids about being a good person when we could instead use that time to teach them computer programming/math/engineering/language/civics?” It is a crowded space with a lot of competing interests already.
Charter schools are a real option in many places. In Chicago if you have money and wherewithal you can open a charter school and basically teach what ever you want. The downside here is you will not be able to get the top students in the city to go to your school because there are already a select few incredible public and private schools.
I went to high school in the USA, in the 2000s, so it has been roughly twenty years. I attended a public highschool, that wasn’t particularly well-funded nor impoverished. There were no ethics or philosophy courses offered. There was not education on moral philosophy, aside from that which is gained through literature in an English class (such as reading Lord of the Flies or Fahrenheit 451 or To Kill a Mockingbird).
There is a Facebook group for EA Education, but my impression is that it isn’t very active.
My (uninformed, naïve) guess is that this isn’t very tractable, because education tends to be controlled by the government and there are a lot of vested interests. The argument would basically be “why should we teach these kids about being a good person when we could instead use that time to teach them computer programming/math/engineering/language/civics?” It is a crowded space with a lot of competing interests already.
Charter schools are a real option in many places. In Chicago if you have money and wherewithal you can open a charter school and basically teach what ever you want. The downside here is you will not be able to get the top students in the city to go to your school because there are already a select few incredible public and private schools.