Jeff Snyder

EDUC 100: Will This Be on the Test? Standardized Testing and American Education

How and why have standardized tests become so central to American education? What role does testing play in today’s educational reform agenda? How has testing reflected and shaped core American ideas such as opportunity, equality and merit?

EDUC 110: Introduction to Educational Studies

How do authors in different fields study, understand and write about the practice of teaching, life inside schools and the larger purposes of education? What kinds of questions do they pose? What methods do they use to search for answers? 

EDUC 245: History of American School Reform

This course examines the history of American education as a long series of reform cycles, from the origins of the public school system in the mid-nineteenth century to the passage of the No Child Left Behind legislation in 2002. 

EDUC 250: Fixing Schools: Politics and Policy in American Education