Seminar in Urban Education
Seminar on historical and contemporary urban educational issues and policies, emphasizing their relationship to housing, poverty, gentrification, and community development in U.S. cities.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2016: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2018: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Analyze and articulate the relationship between urban education and broader political, social, and economic contexts.
Critically analyze the role that urban educational policy, school structures, and school actors play in causing, ameliorating, or exacerbating educational inequities .
Critically analyze the role that out-of-school factors (e.g. home, community, and broader economic and political contexts and conditions) play in causing, ameliorating, or exacerbating educational inequities.
Evaluate research and policy on urban educational issues .
Effectively communicate what they learned about urban educational issues both orally and in writing, to both academic and non-academic audiences.
Source: UW Guide
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2016: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2018: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades).
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Topics
- Urban educational issues and policies
- Relationship between education and housing, poverty, gentrification, and community development
- Educational inequities and school structures
- Out-of-school factors affecting educational outcomes
Skills
- Analyze relationships between urban education and political, social, and economic contexts.
- Critically analyze the role of educational policy, school structures, and actors in educational inequities.
- Critically analyze the impact of out-of-school factors on educational inequities.
- Evaluate research and policy regarding urban educational issues.
- Communicate urban educational insights effectively to academic and non-academic audiences.
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