Special Topics in Social Policy (351-0-20)

Topic

Social Opportunity and Educational Policy

Instructors

James Edward Rosenbaum

Meeting Info

Online: Tues, Thurs 3:30PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

We examine how schools and students' social contexts reduce or reproduce social inequalities from kindergarten to college, and we identify levers for change. We consider various policy reforms, their potential benefits, and how they actually work. We examine how research can contribute to the design of reforms. Students will write two reaction papers to a policy issue and conduct policy research on ethnographic data that was collected in urban schools.

Evaluation Method

Midterm paper & final paper

Class Attributes

Course Meets Online