SMED 60550Schools and Society: Foundations for Secondary Teaching

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This introductory course addresses a number of foundational questions in the field of education, including: Who goes to school and for what purposes? What is taught and who decides? How are schools organized and who funds them? How are schools different now than they were 100 years ago? What legal precedents and reform movements have shaped education today? How are schools in the United States similar to and different from those abroad?