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Educational Leadership
Transform PreK–12 education policy and practices.
The UMass Amherst program in Educational Leadership is ideal for students who want to transform PreK–12 education, influencing policy and practices in a wide range of educational contexts and settings.
The Educational Leadership program is committed to social justice, with a focus on equity, inclusion, and diversity. Students examine whose voices dominate in education and whose voices are missing and build skills necessary to address the needs of groups that encounter discriminatory treatment. The Ph.D. program takes a multi-disciplinary approach, with students drawing on sociology, psychology, business, and other fields outside of education.
The graduate certificate in program evaluation imparts the fundamental practices of program evaluation.