Education acts as a gateway to unequally distributed social rewards: things like income and wealth, social status, leisure time, health, relationship success, and control over one’s environment. Some of the most important and perplexing questions in social and political philosophy concern who gets access to that gateway, at what cost, and what they experience while passing through. This course examines issues of social justice in compulsory primary and secondary education, as well as issues of justice in higher education. The course is designed to introduce students to social justice issues in education and assist them in discovering their ability to create positive change in their own world and will examine different methods aimed at educational equity like trauma-informed education, anti-racist education, multicultural education, culturally responsive pedagogy, and culturally sustaining pedagogy. Graded on A-F basis only.