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 educators and educational leaders. Explore our programs, each committed to evidence-based policy and practice, democracy, diversity, and social justice.
Curriculum and Instruction programs enrich understanding of the histories and foundations of knowledge, inquiry, learning, and pedagogy in teaching and research in subject areas. This program has two distinct program areas: Literacy Studies and Math & Science Education.
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.
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.
Take an interdisciplinary approach to studying learning, teaching, and development in schools and out-of-school contexts. Our program is at the leading edge of explorations of issues of social justice, power, and culture in learning.
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.
#1
Best College Town in America.
American Institute for Economic Research 2017
100%
of our recent grads surveyed were employed within 6 months.
2016 Graduate Destination Survey
Sweet 16
Our Curriculum & Instruction and Education Policy programs' standings among 300+ programs nationwide.
US News & World Report
Most Diverse
% of students of color than any other graduate program on campus
