EDSM 8701:Contemporary Issues in Educational Equity for Secondary & Middle Grades Education

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to a graduate program in education
This course is designed to broaden students’ understandings of contemporary equity issues in education. With a focus on perspective taking and knowledge creation, students will examine equity issues at the federal, state, and individual levels. Students will assess themselves, their students, their classrooms and schools for contemporary barriers to equity and develop a proposal to address an equity issue in their school setting.