# EDPOL 147: Ethics and Education | UW–Madison

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## Dataset

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## course

### run id

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### semester

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### course id

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### course number

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### subjects

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### title

ETHICS AND EDUCATION

### description

Examines a variety of ethical questions in education, including: What justifies educating people, in the first place? What does equity in education require? Who has the proper authority to make decisions about education? Introduces analytic tools that educational ethicists use to investigate foundational and applied questions. Understand and evaluate major views on a range of such foundational and applied issues in educational ethics.

### requirements text

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### llm summary

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### llm topics

* Justification for educating people
* Equity in education
* Authority to make decisions about education

### llm skills

* Use analytic tools to investigate foundational and applied ethical questions in education
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### llm assumed background

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#### quick take

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.76 GPA, 93.1% A/AB (n=29 letter grades).

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#### version

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#### results

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#### term



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#### count

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#### departments

| subject | comparison |
| ------- | ---------- |
| EDPOL   |            |

### terms

#### 1264

##### term

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##### gpa

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##### count

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##### departments

| subject | comparison |
| ------- | ---------- |
| EDPOL   |            |

### benchmarks

#### all

##### school

###### size

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###### gpa

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###### top Share

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###### count

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##### EDPOL

###### size

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###### gpa

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###### top Share

92.8800181753709

###### count

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#### terms

##### 1264

###### school

###### size

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###### gpa

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###### top Share

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###### count

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###### EDPOL

###### size

15

###### gpa

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###### top Share

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###### count

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## following

None recorded.
