Critical Education Policy Analysis

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K-12 education has become a sprawling institutional complex that includes formal schooling, governmental policymakers, major foundations, non-profit organizations, teachers' unions, parent organizations, and large for-profit corporations. Education has become a battleground where these forces both shape - and are shaped by - policies made at the federal, state, and local levels. This course examines the struggle over educational policy. Offered: Sp.