Spring 2027

Immigration, Education, and Equity

Examines policy issues surrounding the education of children from immigrant families in K-16 settings, exploring economic, social, political, and ideological contexts through readings, discussions, and assignments.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Bailey Smolarek

Summary

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Past student reviews · Edgar Valles

The workload included 2-4 readings per week and a response paper, which one student found manageable and easily doable.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Analyze the economic, political, and social contexts of immigration in the US.

  • Describe the scope, breadth and diversity of immigrant flows to the US and how they have changed over time in relation to immigration policy.

  • Examine questions about educational quality and access, language and culture, immigration, educational policy, community and family engagement, and other topics pertinent to the education of immigrants in the US.

  • Analyze the critical academic, linguistic, and social supports schools must provide to immigrant students, including an assets-based approach.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Sophomore standing

  • Sophomore standing
EDPOL 460

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  • Sophomore standing

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.87 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=26 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

BAILEY SMOLAREK is recorded teaching in Spring 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Edgar Valles

Students found the topics interesting and described the lectures as engaging, insightful, and connected to current events, videos, and documentaries.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.93 GPA, 96.4% A/AB (n=28 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.92 GPA, 96.7% A/AB (n=30 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.90 GPA, 93.3% A/AB (n=30 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Edgar Valles

The workload included 2-4 readings per week and a response paper, which one student found manageable and easily doable.

Past student reviews · Edgar Valles

A student appreciated that there was no busy work and that all assignments had a clear purpose for learning.

Topics

  • Economic, social, political, and ideological contexts of immigration and education
  • Educational anthropology, sociology of education, educational policy, sociolinguistics, and language pedagogy

Skills

  • Analyze economic, political, and social contexts of immigration
  • Examine educational quality, access, language, culture, and policy
  • Analyze academic, linguistic, and social supports for immigrant students

Grades

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About this comparison

1316 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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EDPOL 460 · Spring 2027

Immigration, Education, and Equity

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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