Education Inequality and Community Assets: Contexts and Change

Designed for graduate students in the Urban Education Policy A.M. and the Master of Arts in Teaching programs, this course focuses on understanding the dynamic social, cultural, and community conditions shaping America's diverse classrooms. We do so through reading and engaging in anthropological and sociological scholarship on issues like immigrant students, hidden scripts of gender and sexuality in secondary schools, social class and tracking, and ethno-racial discrepancies in discipline. By reading works focused on close observation of students, teachers, and families, students will learn to identify, describe, and evaluate how socio-cultural and socio-economic factors impact learning, student outcomes, and teaching.