ESP Biography



AUSTIN BLOCK, ESP Teacher



Major: Public Policy

College/Employer: Stanford

Year of Graduation: 2015

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Past Classes

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S4323: Still Separate, Still Unequal: Urban Education in Splash Spring 2015 (Apr. 11 - 12, 2015)
Why is it that the term "urban education" has become code for "poor," "minority-dominant," and "underperforming" schools and districts? What is it about "urban education" that makes it critical social terrain to examine? This course will explore the major developments, contexts, tensions, challenges, and policy issues of urban education.


S2175: The Social Contract: What it is and Why it Matters in Splash! Spring 2012 (Apr. 21 - 22, 2012)
It is difficult to think of a more important topic than governance. Why have certain forms of government been more conducive to the aims of individual nations? How much power should governments have? These are some of the questions that we can hopefully broach in our short time together. Just what did Thomas Hobbes mean by the "Leviathan"? Come ready to think about controversial topics.