Education Policy and School Reform

3 credits · Peabody College - Professional

This course is designed to (1) increase students' familiarity with and understanding of select key issues in current school reform policy debate; (2) enable students to systematically evaluate research on both sides of debates about particular types of school reform policies; (3) increase students' ability to access and properly use research on school reform to inform analysis, evaluation, decision-making, and implementation; and (4) improve students' skills in oral and written analysis and presentation. [3]