Power, Politics, and Policy

Catalog description

This course will prepare students to critically analyze the process of policy implementation in education, and to understand the ways in which outcomes align-or fail to align-with goals of policymakers. Students will examine the educational policy implementation process by studying: the origins, assumptions, and goals of educational policies; the ways in which policies interact with diverse local contexts and levels of governance and how policies are interpreted by local actors. See the attached course syllabus for more details including student learning outcomes.