Department of Education
Educating for Impact
We prepare leaders in education who are committed to driving equity, innovation, and meaningful change in urban schools and systems.
Educating for Impact
We prepare leaders in education who are committed to driving equity, innovation, and meaningful change in urban schools and systems.
Our programs are designed to meet the most urgent needs in education today. Whether you are pursuing classroom teaching, educational policy, or research, you will engage deeply with theory and practice to address real-world challenges and promote educational justice. Through rigorous academics, immersive fieldwork, and community collaboration, our students learn to lead at every level of the system, from local schools to national policy.
Our faculty are nationally recognized for research that seeks to understand and solve the largest problems and inequalities in education today. We work in partnership with schools, districts, and communities to reimagine what is possible in teaching, learning, and leadership.
Undergraduate
The Education Studies concentration empowers students to explore critical issues in education, design an individualized course pathway, and complete a senior capstone focused on equity, learning, and policy.
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Master of Arts in Teaching
Brown’s MAT program is a one-year, intensive, practice-based graduate program that prepares future educators to teach with purpose, equity, and deep content knowledge in urban schools.
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Urban Education Policy A.M.
Brown’s UEP program is a one-year graduate program that prepares students to advance equity and justice in education through policy analysis, applied research, and community engagement.
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Student Spotlight: Arianna Mendez UEP'26
Arianna is a UEP student who is interning at RIDE, where she applies data-analytic methods to evaluate career and technical education programs. Her time at Brown has been defined by community-informed policy work, ranging from the Central Falls mayoral office to developing culturally responsive evaluation strategies for a local RI organization.
The Brown Daily Herald
Two Brown professors selected as 2026 Guggenheim Fellows
Matthew Kraft, a professor of education and economics, was named a recipient of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship. This year’s fellows were selected from nearly 5,000 applicants. Applications in the Creative Arts and Humanities and the Sciences increased by 50% and 86%, respectively. The fellowship is offered to scholars in any field and is determined based on past accomplishments and future potential, according to the foundation’s website. Kraft is among 223 fellows who will receive a monetary stipend through the fellowship to pursue independent work. The value of the stipend is decided based on each researcher’s project.
Julia reflects on how community-based learning shaped her path from Brown to a legal career serving K-12 schools.
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