Contemporary Issues in Education Policy

Catalog description

This course is designed to introduce students to the process of K-12 education policymaking and how it affects educational practice in the United States. Informed by a range of social science disciplines, research in education policy has grown considerably in its rigor and scope in recent decades. This course seeks to equip students to analytically engage with emergent research as it applies to education policy and practice, particularly how it relates to inequality in educational attainment. Students will read seminal works on topics including: teacher compensation, evaluation, and certification; charter school and school choice policies; and college access and success.