Equity & Social Justice

Systemic Change Starts with You

Address inequity, social injustice, and systemic exclusion. At BU Wheelock, you’ll study systems like education, health, housing, policy, the criminal legal system, and other areas of public life in a comprehensive program.

  • Gain resources and tools to design strategies to prevent and reverse inequities
  • Engage in research with community partners
  • Fully online, with optional in-person electives for EdM students
  • No GRE required
  • Scholarship opportunities—awarded to 60% of students in BU Wheelock

Earn a Degree That Matches Your Goals

Kaylene Stevens speaking at podium

Making a Difference in Massachusetts

Kaylene Stevens, a faculty member for the EdM, collaborated with colleague Rob Martinelle on a project for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). Together, they studied the impact of Investigating History, a new open-source social studies curriculum for grades 5–7 developed by DESE.

“These curricular materials were designed to promote deep inquiry learning with a focus on culturally affirming pedagogies, human connection, and civic engagement, all which we believe promote better and more equitable classrooms,” says Stevens, author of Teaching History for Justice: Centering Activism Students’ Study of the Past.

Learn from Changemakers

Driven by a desire to combat issues of racial disparity and injustice, Clinical Associate Professor Felicity Crawford, EdD, had a vision: to collaborate across disciplines to create a master’s program that would “help educators, policymakers, and other professionals learn how to address the consequences of systemic inequity that come along with invidious discrimination against excluded groups.” Now, this former PreK–12 educator and education researcher joins colleagues from across BU Wheelock to teach courses in the Equity & Social Justice EdM.