Urban Systems — Urban Educational Policy

Description

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The specialization urban educational policy in the PhD Program in Urban Systems is designed to prepare students to develop research-based knowledge of urban educational systems and policies. Through an interdisciplinary approach to understanding urban educational systems and problems, students are prepared to think critically about systemic, urban school improvement. Based on the belief that urban education cannot be understood outside the larger context of urban systems, the program is designed to help students connect the study of urban education to the history, sociology, politics, and economics of urban life.

Through course work, research, and internships, students will engage in-depth examinations of urban educational policy and practice. Using New Jersey's historic Abbott v. Burke case as a foundation for understanding national trends, students will examine urban educational reforms in the state's thirty urban Abbott districts resulting from this decision, including whole school reform, mandated early childhood education, and equity financing. Based on their research, students will explore the limits and possibilities of urban educational policy in improving schools for all children. Graduates will be prepared to take positions as university faculty, educational researchers and policy makers at the national, state, local and foundation levels, or to work as policy analysts in school systems.

Contents

* Urban Systems I: History and Future of the Metropolis
* Urban Systems II: Urban Populations
* Urban Systems III: Cities in World Perspective
* Determinants & Consequences of Urban Health
* The Good City
* Urban Education Systems

Requirements

In addition to a statement about your educational and work background, please discuss your reasons for pursuing a Ph.D. and possible topics for dissertation research. In addition, discuss the state of urban education in the United States and what you see as the role of research in solving urban educational problems.

English Language Requirements

Funding

All first year PhD students are supported by departmental or university fellowships or graduate assistantships, which provide stipend, tuition remission, and sometimes student fees for the first year.After the first year, students will be supported by their advisors through fellowships and graduate assistantships.

There are also a number of multi-year fellowships available for advanced students through NSF and NIH training programs. BME also has a limited number of teaching assistantships for graduate students who demonstrate outstanding teaching skills.

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