The Politics of Policymaking

3 credits · Peabody College - Professional

This course is an introduction to education politics and their influence on education policy, primarily at the K-12 level. The course examines: the structure of policy institutions and how those structures matter for the education policy process; models or frameworks for understanding the formation, adoption and implementation of education policy; the application of those frameworks to policy activity at the local, state, and national levels; understanding shifts in how education policy decision-making has been distributed throughout the policy system over time; and the current state of the education governance system and how that system both facilitates and buffers against policy change. [3]