EDUC 157x
Poverty, Inequality and Education Workshop
Autumn 2013
Tuesday, 5:15 – 7:00 PM
CERAS Learning Hall, Stanford
Professors
Teaching Assistants
Jelena Obradovic {[email protected]}
Prudence Carter {[email protected]}
Elizabeth Dayton {[email protected]}
Rachel Lotan {[email protected]}
Kenneth Shores {[email protected]}
Sean Reardon {[email protected]}
Course Description
Although poverty and inequality play a powerful role in shaping our children’s educational
opportunities, inequality is not inevitable, and poverty is not destiny. Stanford is committed to
building knowledge both about how to reduce inequality and about how to ensure that all children
have an equal chance to succeed in school and to lead productive, fulfilling lives.
This Poverty, Inequality, and Education (PIE) workshop will provide an ongoing forum for discussion
of these issues. It will include a series of public lectures, panel discussions, film screenings, and
conferences throughout the year. Undergraduates and graduate students enrolled in the course will
be taught jointly by professors Sean F. Reardon, Prudence Carter, Jelena Obradovic, and Rachel
Lotan. Each class session, however, will be open to the general public. A full schedule of events
and course schedule, as well as more information about the Workshop, is at edpov.stanford.edu.
The PIE website will be updated daily with news, research, and events related to poverty, inequality,
and education.
Classes will consist of lecture and focused discussion on readings, events and lectures, films and
current topics. Brief writing assignments will at times be required. Below is a tentative list of course
topics for Autumn quarter.
Week 1 (10/1/13)
Week 6 (11/5/13)
-Introduction to course, faculty and assistants.
-Topic To Be Determined
-Talk and Discussion led by Sean Reardon, “Trends
in Educational Inequality”
Week 7 (11/11/13) *class moved from 11/12/13
Week 2 (10/8/13)
-Reading “Educationalizing the Welfare State and
Privatizing Education: the Evolution of Social
Policy since the New Deal”, Harvey Kantor and
Robert Lowe in Closing the Opportunity Gap:
What America Must Do to Give Every Child an
Even Chance
-Talk and Discussion by Raj Chetty, “Spatial
Concentration, Segregation and Social Mobility”
-Readings To Be Determined
Week 8 (11/19/13)
-Talk and Discussion by Sean Reardon,
“Measurement Issues: Mobility, Poverty, and
Inequality”
-Talk and Discussion led by Prudence Carter
-Readings To Be Determined
- Talk will be available online course website for
those enrolled
Week 9 (11/26/13)
Week 3 (10/15/13)
-Thanksgiving Holiday
-Readings To Be Determined
Week 10 (12/3/13)
-Talk and Discussion led by Prudence Carter and
Sean Reardon, “Segregation and Integration,
Topics in Spatial Inequality”
-Topic To Be Determined
Week 4 (10/22/13)
-Readings “Equality, Adequacy and Education for
Citizenship,” (Satz, 2007, Ethics) & “Putting
Educational Equality in its Place,” (Brighouse and
Swift, 2008, Education Finance and Policy)
- will be made available online
- Talk and Discussion led by Debra Satz and Ken
Shores on “Educational Sufficiency or Equality”
Week 5 (10/29/13)
-Talk and Discussion led by David Grusky, “Trends
in Social Mobility”
- Readings To Be Determined