HOME Syllabus contents: Course Description Grading Policy Required Readings Other Items	BPOLST 593 BLS 443 Education Policy and the Economy
	Syllabus Daniel Jacoby, Professor Randy Spaulding,Teaching Assistant Office UW1 Room 330, UW2-340A, MAPS Office jacoby@u.washington.edu rspauldi@u.washington.edu Phone (425) 352-5365 Phone: (425)352.5427 Hours: Thurs 4-6 PM or by appointment
	Course Description Description: This course examines interactions between the economy and education. Among those interactions with which this class is particularly concerned are: How citizens prepare for work; Whether, and which, schools should conduct this preparation: The effects of schooling upon workers and the economy; and, How academic labor issues affect education. By no means does this class assume that schools should be primarily responsible for promoting the economy, yet neither is it assumed that schools should be unresponsive to economic considerations. Instead, we seek to understand schooling both as it is and as it should respond to democratic needs; needs which may entail economic concerns <-- RETURN TO TOP Grading Policy, See Assignment sheet. <-- RETURN TO TOP Required Readings Texts: Kenneth Arrow, Samuel Bowles, and Steven Durlauf, editors, Meritocracy and Economic Inequality, Princeton University 2000 Linda Darling-Hammong The Right to Learn, A Blueprint for creating schools that work, Jossey Bass, 1997 Stanley Aronowitz, The Knowledge Factory, Dismantling the Corporate Univerity and Creating True Higher Learning, Beacon Press, 2000 Charles Taylor Kerchner, Julia E. Koppich and Joseph G Weeres, United Mind Workers, Unions and Teaching in the Knowledge Society, Jossey Bass, 1997 Other Items on Electronic Reserves found at http://eres.bothell.washington.edu/courseindex.asp <-- RETURN TO TOP Other Items
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