EDUCATION (ED) {EDUC} - Penn GSE

628. Education Finance Policy. (A) Goertz.
This course examines the legal, political and economic issues surrounding how public schools are funded, including equity and
the interaction of finance and school reform.
707. U.S.School Policy and Reform. (C) Desimone.
This course is designed to increase students' understanding of education policy focused on improving public schools. Topics
include accountability, school choice, merit pay and curriculum and leadership reforms, with a focus on the translation of reforms
to school and classroom implementation. The course provides opportunities for students to evaluate research on education policy
based on the conceptual and methodological rigor of the research.
708. Schools as Organizations. (C) Ingersoll.
This course examines schools as workplaces, teachers as employees and teaching as a job. It is concerned with the character of
the teaching occupation and the organization of elementary and secondary schooling. It draws from multiple fields and
perspectives, including: organizational theory;; the sociology of organizations, occupations and work;; educational administration;;
and school leadership. The objective is to have students understand and evaluate a series of different perspectives from theory,
research and policy. This is a doctoral-level course.
SM 712. (AFRC460, URBS460, URBS560) Policy Making in Education: Theory and Practice. (C) Staff.
This course examines how K-12 education policy is designed and implemented in the United States. It uses a systems analysis as
the framework for looking at who makes what kinds of demands on the education policy system, how these demands are placed
on the policy agenda, the decision making process, and resulting education policies and policy outcomes. The course pays
particular attention to the roles of federal, state and local governments in education policy, and the impact of our
intergovernmental system on the design and implementation of policy. Students will also examine major education policies and
debate key education policy issues that arise at each level of government.
720. Current Issues in Teacher and Teaching Policy. (C) Desimone.
This course is designed as a policy seminar to provide students with the opportunity to analyze critical policy debates pertaining
to teachers and teaching policy. Students will have the opportunity to analyze, synthesize and evaluate research and policy
positions focused on teachers and teaching.
838. Applied Research & Reporting. (C) Maynard. Prerequisite(s): Competence in basic statistics and computer literacy.
Hands-on experience conducting applied research. Students will be guided through a research project of relevance to education
or social policy chosen by the student, with assistance from the instructor. The research entails analysis of one or more public or
quasi-public use data sets, such as the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth;; the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Child
Supplement;; The Teenage Parent Demonstration Data Base;; the National Profile of Child Care Settings Data Base;; or the
National Post Secondary Student Aid Survey. The students will prepare journal-length papers based on their research and
respond to the reviews of classmates and the instructor.
SM 900. Research Seminar in Education. (C) Staff.
Issues in research design, development of a literature review, and dissertation proposal.
EDLX-Educational Linguistics
507. (EDUC465) Sociology of Language. (L) Pomerantz.
This course examines the intersection of language and society, asking how language ideologies might be implicated in the
construction and maintenance of such constructs as national identity, 'standard' language variety, race, and ethnicity. Through
theoretical readings and case studies, participants will question how particular linguistic situations give rise to certain institutional
practices and probe how these practices might foster inequitable relations of power.
516. Teaching Second Language Writing. (A) Howard.
An introduction to current research and theories on second language writing and composition pedagogy. Students analyze
writing samples by second language learners, observe and critique writing lessons, design and present mini-lessons, compose a
teaching philosophy, and design curricula for second language writing courses.
517. Classroom Discourse and Interaction. (B) Rymes.
An examination of research on language use in the classroom and its impact on the academic, linquistic, and social development
of students. This course is designed for teachers interested in studying their own classrooms, as well as teacher trainers and
education researchers.