GCC3021
GCC 3021 - The Achievement Gap: Who is to Blame? (3 Cr.) Diversity and Soc Justice US, Honors
Undergrad Education Administration (10148)
TUED - Undergraduate Education Administration
GCC 3021 - The Achievement Gap: Who is to Blame? (3 Cr.) Diversity and Soc Justice US, Honors
Course description
Students in GCC 3021 will start the semester with a review of what unequal schooling looks like in the United States. The course uses the history of Detroit to examine how underinvestment and discrimination positioned minoritized communities to receive inadequate education. School structures--including resources, climate and discipline, academic tracks, and community engagement--will be explored.
Students will consider what it means to say that there are "achievement gaps" in our society's schools. Mainstream assumptions and meanings will be questioned and criticized, and alternatives, such as the notion of an "education debt," will be explored.
This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course.
Students will consider what it means to say that there are "achievement gaps" in our society's schools. Mainstream assumptions and meanings will be questioned and criticized, and alternatives, such as the notion of an "education debt," will be explored.
This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course.
Minimum credits
3
Maximum credits
3
Is this course repeatable?
No
Grading basis
A-F - A-F Grade Basis
Lecture
Requirements
000959
This course fulfills the following Liberal Education requirement(s)
Race, Power, and Justice in the United States
Fulfills the writing intensive requirement?
No
Typically offered term(s)
Periodic Fall & Spring