THE POLITICS OF EDUCATION INJUSTICE IN THE US

EDPOL 505

Explore urban education in the United States and its relationship to broader political, social, and economic contexts; focuses on contemporary urban educational issues and students' experiences in school and community settings, the experiences of students and families of color and the relationship between race, class, gender, and inequality in urban education.

EDPOL 145

Introduction to K-12 education policy, policy processes, and school governance in the United States. Examines the multiple and sometimes conflicting goals that animate education debates; the discourses and representations of schools, students, and education policies that shape policy and politics; research on education and education policy; and the various lenses and conceptual tools that can help us understand education policy. Includes original policy texts, empirical and conceptual research, current events, and film. Considers how key themes may be useful (or not) for thinking about early childhood education, higher education, and K-12 education in historical and contemporary, US and and global, contexts.

EDPOL 305

Explores both the form(s) of education in democracies and the controversies that shape education in the contemporary U.S. context. Examines the history of elements of mass schooling in the U.S., analyzes the competing values at play in contemporary issues, and explores some of the human stories behind some of the most enduring problems in U.S. education. Discusses the necessity of education for democratic life, the challenges inherent in mass schooling in the U.S., and the varying positions that animate contemporary educational debates. Evaluates a variety of educational issues on the basis of democratic criteria such as equality, liberty, and justice.

EDPOL 200

Explores the complex relationships among race, ethnicity and inequality in U.S. public education through theoretical, historical, social, and cultural frameworks and perspectives. Specifically, examine how schools serve are sites where racial/ethnic inequality is produced, reproduced, and resisted through institutional structures and the "everyday" practices of teachers, students, parents, and community members. Examine how race and ethnicity intersect with other identities (e.g. gender, social class, sexual orientation, etc.). It is centrally focused on K-12 education and working in multicultural contexts.

EDPOL 150

Examines a variety of topics related to educational policies, practices, and issues in social, cultural, historical, and political economic contexts in the U.S. and around the world.