Study Group Details
160: Public Education and the Future of American Democracy
Monday11:45 - 1:15
Starting September 29
In-Person
The US public education has been the pathway to success in life for people and a bastion of our democracy. Its accomplishments are legion. Today, America’s K-12 education system is at severe risk, facing multiple internal and external challenges—chronic absence, reading levels, and teacher recruitment, as well as book banning, limits on discussing LGBTQ issues and the ignoring of historical truths. Actions of the Trump Administration are wreaking havoc with local school budgets, and a new new federal tax credit for private school vouchers raises the of education privatization movement This course will examine these issues in the context of the basics of how public education works, partisan politics, persistent inequities, and the future of our democracy.
This study group is a repeat with revisions
Class Type: Discussion
Class Format: In-Person
Hours of Reading: No required reading
Study Group Leader(s):
Martin Blank
Michael Usdan and Martin Blank are former presidents of the Institute for Educational Leadership, with decades of experience in public education at the school, community, state and national levels.
Michael UsdanMichael Usdan and Martin Blank are former presidents of the Institute for Educational Leadership, with decades of experience in public education at the school, community, state and national levels.