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SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1-2 Is There an Educational Problem and If So, What Does it Look Like?
3 Human Capital Theory: The Basic Economic Perspective on Education
4 When Did Earnings Become so Dependent on Education? Problem set 1 assigned
5-6 Reconsideration: What Are We Measuring When We Measure the Return to an Individual's Education: Knowledge? A Signal? A Genetic Endowment? Problem set 1 due in Ses #5
7-8 Why has the Rate of Return to Education Increased? Problem set 2 assigned in Ses #8
9 School Reform - Where Should You Put Your Money?
10 Did More Money Used to Mean Better Schools? Does it Now? Problem set 2 due
11 Midterm Exam
12 School Vouchers and Parental Choice
13 School Vouchers (cont.)
14-15 School Standards and Assessments
16 Teacher Quality and Teacher Training
17 Teacher Quality (cont.) Problem set 3 assigned
18-19 Minority Group Performance Problem set 3 due in Ses #19
20-21 Teaching and Technology
22-24 Issues in Higher Education
25 Conclusion and Wrap Up