Spring 2027

Introduction to Education Policy

Introduction to K-12 education policy, policy processes, and school governance in the U.S., examining goals, discourses, research, and lenses across historical and global contexts.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Erica Turner

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.92 GPA, 95.8% A/AB (n=48 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.90 GPA, 93.1% A/AB (n=29 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.86 GPA, 93.1% A/AB (n=29 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Critically analyze the multiple purposes, complex governance and politics, contested discourses, and major problems and policies in education.

  • Demonstrate familiarity with and ability to discern between competing perspectives on education policy.

  • Apply concepts and knowledge from the course to analyzing new policies, reform proposals, and current events

  • Utilize the skills developed in this class, combined with values and experiences, to develop and defend policy positions.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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EDPOL 145

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.45 GPA, 78.0% A/AB (n=59 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.92 GPA, 95.8% A/AB (n=48 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.86 GPA, 93.1% A/AB (n=29 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ERICA TURNER is recorded teaching in Spring 2019, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.92 GPA, 95.8% A/AB (n=48 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.90 GPA, 93.1% A/AB (n=29 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.86 GPA, 93.1% A/AB (n=29 letter grades).

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Topics

  • K-12 education policy, policy processes, and school governance in the U.S.
  • Conflicting goals in education debates and discourses shaping policy and politics
  • Research on education policy and conceptual tools for understanding it
  • Original policy texts, empirical/conceptual research, current events, and film
  • Applications to early childhood, higher education, and K-12 in historical/global contexts

Skills

  • Critical analysis of education purposes, governance, politics, and policies
  • Discerning between competing perspectives on education policy
  • Applying concepts to analyze new policies, reforms, and current events
  • Developing and defending policy positions

Grades

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EDPOL 145 · Spring 2027

Introduction to Education Policy

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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