ECON 4250H: Economics of Education (Honors)

An analysis of how education is organized and delivered, and the efficacy of reforms such as increasing teacher salaries, decreasing student-teacher ratios, requiring teacher certification, high-stakes testing, charter schools, vouchers, and EMO’s. In higher education, we study affirmative action, racial preferences in admissions, and the recent shift from need-based to merit based aid. Offered every year.

Not open to students with credit in ECON 4250. Prerequisite: ECON 4010 and permission of Honors.

3.0 hours