Place, Race, Edu Reform

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

"Place, Race, and Educational Reform." There are education reform initiatives and public discourse that suggest equity-centered schooling should be a mechanism to address racial disparities in the United States. Integral to understanding this proposition is interrogating the ways that schools and their locale use historical, institutionalized, and racialized knowledge across generations of policies, practices, and stakeholders (students, teachers, parents, and administrators) to govern schools. These different knowledge shape today's education successes, failures, and challenges and are essential to interrogating the ideation, implementation, and evaluation of education reform as initiatives that either forges or dismantles education inequity. Thus, this course investigates the relationship between race, schools (as place), and education reform efforts at federal, state, and local levels and by multiple groups of education stakeholders.