Teacher's Dilemma

Jennifer M. Morton is the Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Philosophy with a secondary appointment at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, she is also the Graduate Chair of the Philosophy Department. Morton has been a Laurance S. Rockefeller Faculty Fellow at the Princeton Center for Human Values, a Sara Miller McCune Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and a Guggenheim Fellow. Professor Morton is a senior fellow at the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an elected member-at large of the American Philosophical Association’s Board. Her work focuses on how poverty and social class shape our agency. Her book, Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility (Princeton University Press, 2019) focuses on the ethical sacrifices that first-generation and low-income students make in pursuing upward mobility. It was awarded the Grawemeyer Award in Education and the Frederic W. Ness Book Award by the Association of American Colleges and Universities.