OSHER 138 - Current Challenges and Trends Impacting Utah Schools

Utah educators and students face a complex landscape of high stakes tests, parental choice, crowded classrooms, scarce resources, school closures, and teacher turnover, with an ever- increasing diverse student population. Civic and business leaders are demanding results from its schools while Utah takes on competing political, economic and societal pressures. This course will focus on some of the proposed and controversial solutions to these challenges including, but not limited to: specialized STEM programs, charter schools, national curriculum alignment, and technology, as well as preparation programs for school leaders and teachers.