• The students and teacher in EDUC201 School and Society will examine issues that have an impact on the way that K - 12 education is conducted in the United States. Participants in this course will explore, through discussion and writing, the forces that influence the ways in which we were taught and the ways in which we should teach. Specifically, the course is designed to examine how social, political, economic, and cultural forces shape us as individuals and schools as learning organizations.