Education Policy and Analysis 101

Harvard HGSE

This course is an introduction to public policy, with an applied focus on education policy and policy analysis. The course is organized around core tasks in the work of policymaking: defining the problem, proposing alternative options to address the problem, selecting criteria to evaluate the alternatives, projecting the outcomes of proposed alternatives, confronting the tradeoffs between alternatives, and others. These tasks often involve concepts from economics and political science, which…