Spring 2027

Democracy and Education

Explores the forms of education in democracies and U.S. controversies, examining mass schooling history and evaluating issues via democratic criteria like equality, liberty, and justice.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Emily YoungMax Yakubovskiy

Summary

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Past student reviews · Anthony Hernandez

The course was structured with some weeks being extremely writing-heavy, a feature attributed to the specific summer term context.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe the unique relationship between democratic government and education

  • Describe the values and perspectives inherent in opposing positions in controversies about education in America

  • Utilize evidence to evaluate opposing positions using common democratic values as criteria

  • Synthesize and articulate personal views, and improve written and oral communication of such views to public audiences

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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EDPOL 305

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.70 GPA, 89.8% A/AB (n=49 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ABBY BENEKE is recorded teaching in Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

ANTHONY HERNANDEZ is recorded teaching in Fall 2022. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

EMILY YOUNG is recorded teaching in Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 250
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 250
LEC 003Classroom Instruction0 / 00

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Anthony Hernandez

A past student described a professor as caring and recommended the class, noting the structure felt strange due to summer scheduling constraints.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.57 GPA, 73.9% A/AB (n=46 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.70 GPA, 89.8% A/AB (n=49 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.90 GPA, 96.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Anthony Hernandez

The course was structured with some weeks being extremely writing-heavy, a feature attributed to the specific summer term context.

Past student reviews · Abby Beneke

Small group discussions were frustrating for one student because group members did not contribute, making participation essential despite the class being easy.

Topics

  • History of mass schooling and human stories behind enduring U.S. education problems.
  • Democratic criteria including equality, liberty, and justice applied to educational issues.

Skills

  • Evaluate educational issues using democratic criteria like equality, liberty, and justice.
  • Synthesize and articulate personal views with improved written and oral communication for public audiences.

Grades

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Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
EDPOL 305 · Spring 2027

Democracy and Education

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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