{"id":6955,"date":"2014-02-01T10:08:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T14:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=6955"},"modified":"2014-02-01T10:47:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T14:47:17","slug":"join-usfs-educational-studies-masters-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=6955","title":{"rendered":"Join USF&#8217;s educational studies masters program!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My college is starting up an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coedu.usf.edu\/main\/departments\/psf\/EducationalStudies.htm\">educational studies masters program<\/a> this year&#8211;we&#8217;d love to have you apply!&#8211;and if you click the link, you&#8217;ll see a discussion of who would benefit from the program, how to combine an ed studies masters degree with doctoral programs, and post-graduate outcomes. The following is the transparent end sentence: &#8220;The concentration is recently approved, and we do not have post-graduate employment statistics yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What is true is that there is data on post-graduate <a href=\"http:\/\/esm.beyondeducation.org\/esm\/florida\/area-of-study\/profile\/6\/Social-and-Philosophical-Foundations-of-Education-130901\">job data for this field of study<\/a> in the state university system in general: of the 134 graduates of programs at sister institutions from 2006-07 through 2010-11, one year after graduation 75% of them were working in the state of Florida, 68% full-time, and the average salary was $50K and change.<\/p>\n<p>If you are admitted to and join the 33-hour non-licensure educational studies masters program at USF, you will learn the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why there is now a website called &#8220;BeyondEducation&#8221; with this measure, along with some initial forays in similar ways at the University of Texas and other places.<\/li>\n<li>The limits of such data &#8212; both statistical and otherwise.<\/li>\n<li>The types of bureaucratic operations in schools (both K-12 and higher ed) that may lead that measure to be even more misleading than what you might guess without that knowledge.<\/li>\n<li>The major issues surrounding questions of equality of schooling from a social-science standpoint.<\/li>\n<li>A general grounding in the history of education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My program colleagues are great teachers as well as fellow historians of education, and if you have questions about the problem, I am happy to <a href=\"mailto:dorn@usf.edu?subject=Ed-studies-M.Ed.\">answer them by email<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My college is starting up an educational studies masters program this year&#8211;we&#8217;d love to have you apply!&#8211;and if you click the link, you&#8217;ll see a discussion of who would benefit from the program, how to combine an ed studies masters degree with doctoral programs, and post-graduate outcomes. 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