A-801
Education Policy Analysis and Research in Comparative Perspective
(Formerly titled Education Policy Analysis and Research in Developing Countries)
Fernando Reimers
How can policy leaders, international consultants, and social entrepreneurs help improve educational opportunity in developing nations? How can we help poor and marginalized children get a decent education, and how will that matter to their future life prospects and to the development of the societies in which they live? This course examines key contemporary educational global challenges, focusing on options to effect systemic change in public education systems in developing nations. We will discuss current global efforts to provide quality education. We will examine the role of international agencies and governments in advancing policy reform, and study various approaches to generating and analyzing policy alternatives. The course meets twice a week: in a three hour lecture and discussion with the instructor and in small sections with the teaching fellow. This course is required for students in the International Education Policy Program. It may be of interest to students who want to learn about the educational contexts in which a growing number of immigrant students or immigrant parents have been schooled, or about education policy in comparative perspective.
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