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Intro to School & Society

Syllabus EDUC 3013: School & Society

The Purposes of Public Schooling

Examine before class

Labaree (1997). Public Goods, Private Goods: The American Struggle over Educational Goals

Reimers (2006). Citizenship, identity and education: Examining the public purposes of schools in an age of globalization

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Text Lab 1: Conflict in the Classroom

Traditional & Progressive Education

Examine before class

Hirsch (1993). The Core Knowledge curriculum: What’s behind its success?

Hirsch (2024). Child-Centered Individualism and American Education

Dewey (1897). My Pedagogic Creed

Featherstone (1995). Democratic Vistas

Schultz (2005). Progressive education in a new era.

Submit before class

Text Lab 2: What Was School For?

Educational Autobiography, Initial Ideas

Wellness Week

Critical Pedagogies

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Baldwin (1963). "A Talk to Teachers"

Freire (1970). Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Chapter 2

Picower (2007). Supporting New Educators to Teach for Social Justice

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Text Lab 3: High School I & II

School Funding & Educational Opportunity

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Biddle & Berliner (2004). What Research Says About Unequal Funding

Ladson-Billings (2006). From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schools

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Text Lab 4: What Is And What Should Be

Racial Segregation & Inequality

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Rothstein (2017). The Color of Law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America

Kozol (1991). Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Farmer-Hinton et al (2013). Dear Mr. Kozol. . . . Four African American Women Scholars and the Re-Authoring of Savage Inequalities

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Text Lab 5: What Opportunity Costs

Educational Autobiography Update 1

The "Hidden Curriculum" in Schooling

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Anyon (1980). Social Class And The Hidden Curriculum of Work

Tatum (1997). Defining Racism: "Can We Talk?”

McIntosh (1989). White privilege: Unpacking The Invisible Knapsack.

Lensmire et al. (2013). McIntosh as Synecdoche: How Teacher Education’s Focus on White Privilege Undermines Antiracism

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Text Lab 6: Where The Lines Are Drawn

Educational Autobiography Update 1, if you havent submitted it yet

Ethical Dilemmas in Teaching

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Burger & Levinson (2016). Stolen Trust: Cell Phone Theft in a Zero-Tolerance HS

B. Love (2020). Guide for Racial Justice and Abolitionist Socio-Emotional Learning

Okonofua & Eberhardt (2015). Two Strikes: Race and the Disciplining of Young Students (in class)

Levinson (2015) Moral Injury and the Ethics of Educational Justice (in class)

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Text Lab 7: The Moving Walkway

Tracking & Assessment

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Oakes (2005). Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality

Shepard (1991). Negative Policies for Dealing with Diversity: When Does Sorting and Diagnosis Turn into Sorting and Segregation?

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Text Lab 8: Stolen Trust

Federal Education Policy, Part I

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"A Nation at Risk" Report (1983)

Ravitch, D. (2010). “NCLB: Measure and Punish.” The Death and Life of the Great American School System.

Immersion [Film Clip]

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Text Lab 9: Tracking Opportunity

Ideas in Action Project, Update 1

Federal Education Policy, Part II

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Connell, R. W. (2002). The Question of Gender. In Gender. Polity.

Harper Keenan, Un-scripting the Curriculum: Toward Critical Trans Pedagogy, Harvard Educational Review, 2017.

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Text Lab 10: One To Keep, One To Leave Behind

Educational Autobiography Update 2

Social Movements for Educational Justice

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Warren (2014). Transforming Public Education: The Need for an
Educational Justice Movement.

Anyon (2014) Social Movements & Radical Possibilities for Public Education 

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Continue work on your Educational Autobiography and Ideas In Action Project

Ideas in Action Project Presentations (required)

Optional Zoom Meeting (virtual only) For Assignment Help, starting at 5:45pm

https://cuboulder.zoom.us/my/brandongrossman

Educational Autobiographies Due By December 7th by 10:00 pm!