EDUC 610 Issues in Education

Does merit pay for teachers improve their students’ performance? Are charter schools more effective than their public school counterparts? Do rewards and punishments facilitate learning? Should a struggling student be held back a grade? Teachers face all of these questions. This course will study these “hot topics “in the field of education. We will separate the truth from the myths and work to answer these and several other thought provoking questions. By studying the latest research in the field of education we will aim to bring clarity to topics that are commonly blurred by heated debates.