Instructor:  Stephen York

 

 

EDPO 577:  Contemporary Issues in American Education

Course Description: This course is a Seminar, meeting from 4-6pm on specific dates.  Contact Stephen for those dates.  Students will design an individual learning plan and select print and non-print resources to meet their personal goals.  Students will also participate in online discussions between sessions.

The course addresses current, divisive issues facing American public schools in the 21st century, within the framework of the history of educational reform — since the 1890s.  The study includes the social-ecological questions of control, standards, curriculum and pedagogy.  The No Child Left Behind law, high-stakes testing, accountability, Annual Yearly Progress (AYP), teacher merit pay, charter schools, the privatization of public education, and the polarization and politicization of education will be considered, as well as the impact of school unions and private foundations’ influence on public education.

TO REGISTER, CONTACT STEPHEN YORK.