The Politics of Education Injustice in the US
Examines US public education as a political site to understand politics, power, and injustice, focusing on histories of inequality, policy possibilities, governance, and stakeholder perspectives.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.75 GPA, 94.4% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 92.6% A/AB (n=27 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Explain the historical development of the U.S. public education system in relationship to injustice at the intersection of race, class, gender, and other axes of inequality
Critically analyze contemporary educational policy and politics through a justice lens based on foundational knowledge of the history of public education and theories of power and politics
Evaluate how power and authority is distributed across various political institutions responsible for education policy decision-making, and how various actors work to create change in ways that expand and contract justice
Develop analytic tools to identify how power and politics are impacting contemporary educational policy events that reflect critical engagement with the worldviews and experiences of others
Reflect on personal experiences (as situated in broader contexts) and question knowledge claims related to injustice at the intersection of race, class, gender, and other axes of inequality
Cultivate critical reasoning capacity to apply course concepts related to power, politics, and injustice to their lives outside the classroom and mobilize this capacity to respectfully participate in a multicultural society
Source: UW Guide
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.75 GPA, 94.4% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 92.6% A/AB (n=27 letter grades).
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Topics
- Histories of injustice at intersections of race, class, and gender
- Levels of governance and educational policy
- Perspectives of key actors and stakeholders
- Broader social, spatial, historical, and political-economic contexts
Skills
- Critical analysis of educational policy through power and justice lenses
- Evaluating power distribution in education policy institutions
- Cultivating policy imagination for just educational possibilities
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