26:834:556Foundations of Urban School Administration and Supervision (3) Drawing upon the literature on school administration and leadership, theories and practices are applied to the specifics of urban schools and urban school reform. Within this context, students explore how school administrators can be at the center of school restructuring and revitalization. |
26:834:557Urban School Leadership and Communications (3) Through an examination of school administration, leadership, and supervision literature and its application to urban districts, prospective school administrators analyze the complexities of urban school problems and improvement. |
26:834:558Leadership in Curriculum, Instructional, Leadership and Assessment in Urban Schools (3) Explores recent policies and practices in curriculum, instruction, and assessment, including recent debates about national and state curriculum and learning standards and how to assess them. Special attention focuses on the New Jersey State Core Curriculum standards, various instructional strategies to teach these, and their assessment. |
26:834:559Public School Finance (3) The course covers the educational decision-making process in the political and economic systems in which they exist. Particular attention is given the tax structures which yield the resources directly supporting education, especially the property tax, as well as non-tax resources and the federated governmental structure through which they pass. |
26:834:614Urban Educational Policy and School Improvement (3) Through a historical, sociological, and political analysis of educational problems, this course explores a variety of policy initiatives and reforms, including curriculum and learning standards, school choice, tuition vouchers, charter schools, privatization, and whole school reform. |
26:834:xxxPublic Education Law Seminar (3) Deals with the basic legal structure of the public education system and explores a range of current legal and educational policy issues confronting the public schools. |
