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ED POL 575

EDUCATION POLICY AND PRACTICE

3 credits.

Examines teachers' and administrators' practice through research on teachers and teaching as an occupation, the everyday realities of classrooms, and a variety of frameworks for understanding the relationship between policy and educators' daily work. Considers teachers and administrators as implementers of local, state, and federal policies, while simultaneously designing and creating policies and practices themselves.

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop knowledge about research and theory on teaching as an occupation, teachers’ work, and policy implementation or policy appropriation. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Critically reflect on the relationship between policy and practice. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Apply concepts and lessons from the course to analyze “real world” examples of teaching (or administrative) practice and explain how policy is or is not practiced in schools. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Concisely articulate research-based evidence and reflections about education policy and practices Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop knowledge about research and theory on teaching as an occupation, teachers’ work, and policy implementation or policy appropriation. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Critically reflect on the relationship between policy and practice. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Apply concepts and lessons from the course to analyze “real world” examples of teaching (or administrative) practice and explain how policy is or is not practiced in schools. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Concisely articulate research-based evidence and reflections about education policy and practices Audience: Graduate

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