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Why CU Boulder?

We offer Colorado's top-ranked graduate programs in education. As a graduate student in the School of Education, you will work closely with a small, collaborative group of nationally renowned faculty and a supportive community dedicated to preparing engaged educators, researchers, policymakers, and community leaders.

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Graduate Programs

  • Educational Foundations, Policy & Practice
  • Equity, Bilingualism & Biliteracy
  • Learning Sciences & Human Development
  • Literacy Studies
  • Research & Evaluation Methodology
  • STEM Education
  • Teacher Learning, Research & Practice
  • Teacher Leadership

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Educational Foundations, Policy & Practice

Devote your learning experience to the critical examination of the relationships among education, society, culture, and government, with special emphasis on problems of race, gender, sexual diversity, social class, and multiculturalism.

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  • BAM in Ethnic Studies and Education
  • MA in Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice
  • MA in Higher Education
  • PhD in Education with an emphasis in Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice

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Equity, Bilingualism & Biliteracy

Explore school culture, language policies, and the social and political context of schooling. We are devoted to the critical examination of theory, practice, and policy in: the education of culturally and linguistically diverse students and the education of exceptional children.

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  • MA in Educational Equity and Cultural Diversity
  • PhD in Education with an emphasis in Equity, Bilingualism & Biliteracy

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Learning Sciences & Human Development

Take an interdisciplinary approach to studying learning, teaching, and development in schools and out-of-school contexts. Our program is on the leading edge of explorations of issues of social justice, power, and culture in learning. 

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  • MA in Learning Sciences and Human Development
  • PhD in Education with an emphasis in Learning Sciences and Human Development

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Literacy Studies

Develop a greater understanding and expertise in the teaching and learning of literacy. We explore the dynamics of literacy learning from childhood through adulthood, examine literacy practices both in and out of school, and study literacy needs across change.

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  • MA in Curriculum & Instruction: Literacy Education track
  • MA in Curriculum & Instruction: Humanities Education track
  • PhD in Education with an emphasis in Literacy Studies

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Research & Evaluation Methodology

This is a place for intellectually curious and motivated students who want to learn about research methodology with an eye toward influencing education policy and practice. 

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  • PhD in Education with an emphasis in Research & Evaluation Methodology
  • Graduate Certificate in Quantitative Methods

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STEM Education

CU Boulder is a proud national leader in STEM education, and we offer STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education tracks to support educators who are interested in developing a greater understanding and expertise in the teaching and learning of mathematics and science.

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  • MA in Curriculum & Instruction: Math & Science track
  • PhD in Education with an emphasis in STEM Education

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Teacher Learning, Research & Practice

Teacher Learning, Research and Practice programs enrich understanding of the histories and foundations of knowledge, inquiry, learning, and pedagogy in teaching and research in subject areas.

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  • PhD in Education with an emphasis in Teacher Learning, Research & Practice

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Featured program

Online Program in Teacher Leadership

Make a difference in your classroom, district and community with certificates and a Master's degree in teacher leadership. Affordable, accessible, and designed with instrumental input from teachers, the new Teacher Leadership program is offered entirely online and features stackable graduate certificates that can lead to a full Master's degree.

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Featured program

Master's Plus Teacher Licensure

The MA + Teacher Licensure program leads to a Colorado initial teacher licensure in secondary education (grades 7th-12th) in English, Social Studies, Mathematics, Science, or Music plus a Master’s of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction. Most of the MA+ tracks are designed to be completed in one year with a summer start and finish, and you'll gain experience in K-12 classrooms throughout the program. Earn a master's degree and teacher licensure in just one year.

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Our Commitment to Diversity

Recruiting a diverse student body is at the center of our mission as a school of education located in a public university. We understand that to be a ground-breaking and excellent school of education, we must prioritize racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, language, gender and sexuality diversity, among other types of diversity.

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In order to increase the diversity of our students, we have made a significant commitment to changing the racial composition of our faculty and staff. Since 2017, we have increased the percentage of faculty of color among our tenure line faculty from 26% (8) to 40% (15). The School of Education is committed to not only diversifying our faculty, but also building a critical mass of BIPOC faculty, to transform the culture of the school. We have made the same commitment to hiring staff, and almost 70% of our staff hired in the last three years have been people of color, and our staff is now 46% people of color. We see this commitment as critical to the successful recruitment and retention of students of color in our school. 

Attracting—and supporting—graduate students of color is a central priority for our School of Education. These students bring a powerful combination of academic preparation and professional experience to their studies, enriching not only their classes and their cohorts, but other contexts of teaching and learning. They collaborate with faculty on research and scholarship, contribute their expertise to undergraduate teaching and learning, and also deepen conversations about justice and equity across our campus.  

As a School of Education, we see the work of organizing for justice as ongoing work that grows out of a space of joy, acknowledgement of human creativity and agency, and our commitment to each other and our communities. This is hard work and doing this work with people from diverse backgrounds is both a gift and something that requires great intentionality. We hope that the space we are creating together here in our graduate school can support the University of Colorado in building the collective power needed to live our commitments to equity.  

Drawing on scholarship and histories of activism, we start by acknowledging that the hierarchies that exist in our society—that support the view that some people's lives don't matter and others are much more valued—are deeply etched into our social structure, our day-to-day interactions, our policies, and our habits and dispositions. The violence that is supported through racial, gender, class, sexuality, ability, language, caste hierarchies affects our minds, our spirits, and our bodies. In our School of Education, we are striving to create a world where we can break down these hierarchies so that we can see diversity as a resource for imagining new ways of living together and being in community with each other. 

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Doctoral Mentorship Pathways  Miramontes Doctoral Scholars  Education Diversity Scholars  Multicultural Leadership Scholars

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CU Engage inspires civic engagement and local legacies

20-year-old Enihs Medrano never envisioned herself serving in local government until a program for young people opened her eyes to the power of civic engagement. As a high schooler in Lafayette, Medrano connected with JD Mangat, a fellow Lafayette resident who became Medrano’s coach and mentor in Public Achievement, a youth-led civic engagement program within CU Engage, the School of Education's Center for Community Based Learning and Research. Read more
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CU Boulder student voices, research help move state toward addressing financial barriers for new teachers

CU Boulder researchers have been working with state partners to understand and address the financial strain new teachers face when trying to enter the educator workforce and elevate teacher candidates’ voices. Their work paid off when Gov. Jared Polis signed first-of-its-kind legislation for Colorado that will support new teachers and create student-educator stipends. Read more
Public Achievement ethnic studies course

Public Achievement student leaders create Boulder Valley's first ethnic studies course

With help from CU Boulder’s Public Achievement (PA) program students and staff and support from Boulder Valley School District administrators, several high school juniors' dream of creating an ethnic studies course at Lafayette’s Centaurus High School is becoming a reality. PA leaders developed curriculum for the first-of-its-kind social studies elective class exploring culture, identity, race and ethnicity, and they hope it will be offered districtwide in 2023. Read more

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Best College Town in America. 
American Institute for Economic Research 2017

 

#14

in Education Policy among more than 300 private and public graduate schools of education nationwide.
US News & World Report

 

#1

graduate education program in the state.
US News & World Report

 

Most Diverse

% of students of color than any other graduate program on campus

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