SOCY 414 - The Evaluation of Educational Policy

(3.00)

This course applies research findings from the sociology of education to some key issues of educational policy, focusing on primary and secondary education. Both issues of educational quality and equality are considered, including school quality, choice proposals, school desegregation, compensatory education, tracking, mainstreaming and bilingual education. The course includes an introduction to the nature of educational policy, an overview of the policy-making process at the local level and a critical assessment of policy research, with special attention given to problems of measurement and study design.

Course ID: 56810
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Prerequisite/Corequisite: You must complete nine credits of Social Science and/or Education courses each with a minimum grade of C and your academic level must be junior.