Spring 2027

Education Policy and Practice

Examines teacher and administrator practice through research on teaching as an occupation, classroom realities, and frameworks linking policy to daily work, considering educators as both implementers and creators of policy.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.79 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.82 GPA, 88.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.93 GPA, 95.5% A/AB (n=22 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Develop knowledge about research and theory on teaching as an occupation, teachers’ work, and policy implementation or policy appropriation.

  • Critically reflect on the relationship between policy and practice.

  • 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.

  • Concisely articulate research-based evidence and reflections about education policy and practices

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Prerequisites

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EDPOL 575

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.79 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.82 GPA, 88.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.93 GPA, 95.5% A/AB (n=22 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Research and theory on teaching as an occupation and teachers' work.
  • Everyday realities of classrooms.
  • Frameworks for understanding the relationship between policy and educators' daily work.
  • Teachers and administrators as implementers of local, state, and federal policies.
  • Educators designing and creating policies and practices.

Skills

  • Knowledge of research and theory on teaching as an occupation, teachers' work, and policy implementation.
  • Critical reflection on the relationship between education policy and classroom practice.
  • Applying course concepts to analyze real-world examples of teaching and administrative practice.
  • Articulating research-based evidence and reflections about education policy and practices.

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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