Dr. Watkins teaches seven to ten selected courses within these areas: race issues in public education, curriculum history and theory, history of public education, educational policy studies, social studies education, and multicultural education. Course readings are carefully chosen to interrogate school as a social, political and racial institution.

Connected to his course assignments, Dr. Watkins researches and writes on the political, racial and historical forces shaping schools, especially school knowledge. Critical inquiry, Marxian theory, colonial studies and social justice are but a few notions informing his work. He has written and edited three books, with other publications including journal articles, technical manuals, encyclopedia entries, book reviews, and essays in the popular media.

Dr. Watkins actively shares his scholarship at academic conferences, university colloquia, community organizations, churches, book clubs and fraternal orders. For more information, see William H. Watkins.com

Dr. Weldon's intersts include school improvement broadly and school finance support of school improvement in particular. He reviews and evaluate school programs in terms of their contributions to student achievement.

Over the course of his nearly four decades at UIC, Professor Weldon has studied and taught courses in school finance, collective bargaining in education, administrative practice in education, foundations of education, educational supervision, philosophy of education, and urban school policy.