EDF 3660 - Education and Public Policy in the United States

College of Education

Credit(s): 3
Contact Hours: 47
Effective Term Spring 2025 (645)

Requisites

Admission to Educational Studies and Community Leadership (Bachelor of Science) (EDST-BS) or
Admission to Public Policy and Administration (Bachelor of Science) (PPA-BS)

Course Description

This course is designed to study the relationship between education and public policy at the federal, state, and local levels of government. Emphasis is placed on the social, political, and economic factors that affect the development of educational public policy.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will explain how education policy is developed and implemented by:
    1. identifying the strategies available to the government for addressing policy problems.
    2. defining the role of federal, state, and local governments and the court system in public education.
    3. summarizing the stages of policy development.
    4. applying rational, organizational, and political modes of decision-making.
  2. The student will evaluate policy issues to determine how to impact change by:
    1. identifying the interests, stakeholders, institutions, and political cultures that surround policy issues.
    2. explaining how American political institutions and actors effect the development and implementation of policy.
    3. presenting an educational policy issue detailing the problem and how stakeholders can be mobilized to action.
  3. The student will evaluate policy responses using the criteria of effectiveness, efficiency, and political feasibility by:
    1. applying policy analysis strategies to determine potential trade-offs of different approaches.
    2. assessing policy proposals for intended and unintended outcomes.
    3. debating multiple perspectives on policy issues using evidence and public policy concepts.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will, with a minimum of 75% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above stated objectives through classroom measures developed by individual course instructors.

History of Changes

C&I 7/8/08, BOT 9/19/08, Effective 20081(0400). Submitted as 31XX; State approved as 3660. Flex Access online 20091(0415). C&I 4/27/2010, BOT 6/15/2010, Effective 20093(0425). C&I 6/08/2010, BOT 7/22/2010, Effective 20101(0430). C&I Approval: 06/08/2010, BOT Approval: 07/22/2010, Effective Term: Fall 2010 (430).
C&I Approval: 07/19/2024, BOT Approval: 09/17/2024, Effective Term: Spring 2025 (645)

Related Programs

  1. Educational Studies and Community Leadership (EDST-BS) (665) (Draft)
  2. Educational Studies and Community Leadership (EDST-BS) (660) (Active)
  3. Public Policy and Administration (PPA-BS) (640) (Active)