ED 311 - Getting Schooled: The Politics & Promise of American Education

Many Americans understand that education in the United States is fraught with politics. From funding disparities between school districts to teachers’ qualifications; from prayer in schools to teaching the theory of evolution, from high stakes testing to the United States’ performance rankings globally, political and historical perspectives inform how people respond to controversial issues in schools. This class will enable students to build a framework for understanding policy contests in the educational context and develop broad, original, bipartisan policy proposals for reforming education in America.

Note: Meets Citizenship Learning Outcome (CITZ)

Four credits.