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Educational Leadership and Policy Ph.D. Curriculum

As a Peabody Ph.D. student you will be involved in exciting, next generation research right from the start. Among the issues LPO faculty and graduate students are examining:

· The effects of competition, including charter schools, on educational achievement.

· How to evaluate principals and teachers.

· Teacher incentives and performance pay.

· School zoning, parental involvement, the academic achievement gap, and re-segregation.

· Coaching and feedback for leadership change and development.

· Educational policymaking, including issues of school finance.

Curricular Details

Leadership, Policy and Organizations Doctoral Core - 12 hours

• Politics of Education (3 hours)
• Sociology of Education (3 hours)
• Economics of Education (3 hours)
• Comparitive International Education Policy (3 hours)

Program (Core) - 9 hours

Intensive, weekly, Ph.D. student only; seminars/courses focused on deep exposure to theory, research and literature in program area.

• Ph.D. Research Seminar 1 (3 hours)
• Ph.D. Research Seminar 2 (3 hours)
• Ph.D. Research Seminar 3 (3 hours)

Required Research Methods - 18 hours

• LPO Research Design (3 hours)
• Peabody Quantitative (PSYC 310) (3 hours)
• Qualitative Research (3 hours)
• Regression Analysis (3 hours)
• Research Tool Elective 1 (3 hours)
• Research Tool Elective 2 (3 hours)

Research Practicum - 6 hours

Group research endeavor, organized by area specialization, conceptualized and executed over first year of participants' Ph.D. program; meets bi-weekly during the year and as a "maymester" course.

• Group Research Practicum - Fall (1.5 hours)
• Group Research Practicum - Spring (1.5 hours)
• Group Research Practicum - Summer (3 hours)

Electives - 27 hours

TOTAL - 72 hours