Spring 2027

Law and Public Education

Law and Public Education examines legal issues related to policy decisions and delivery of public elementary and secondary education in the United States.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Suzanne Eckes

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.89 GPA, 96.5% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=37 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify various analytic frameworks that guide legal analysis.

  • Analyze the use of principles and/or frameworks to a situation or issue.

  • Understand the role of analytic frameworks in the development and implementation of law and policy.

  • Describe the many legal issues inherent in daily school practice.

  • Discuss various legal principles.

  • Examine the sources of law and the various interests that the law seeks to balance.

  • Recognize and identify independently the many legal issues inherent in daily school practice.

  • Explore and apply various legal practices and their application.

  • Examine the sources of law and the various interests that the law seeks to balance, provide varying arguments in written form.

  • Find and understand primary sources of legal authority (e.g. actual cases, statutes, and administrative rules).

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2 UW Guide 3

Grade history

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Prerequisites

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Junior standing

  • Junior standing
EDPOL/ELPA/LEGALST 542

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  • Junior standing

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.89 GPA, 96.5% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=37 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

SUZANNE ECKES is recorded teaching in Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Online Only0 / 250
LEC 002Online Only0 / 250
LEC 001Online Only0 / 250
LEC 002Online Only0 / 240
LEC 001Online Only0 / 250
LEC 002Online Only0 / 250

Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.89 GPA, 96.5% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=37 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

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Topics

  • Impact of law on curriculum development and delivery.
  • Current legal controversies and constitutional issues.
  • Effects of legislation and litigation on public education.
  • Law as public policy and its analysis.

Skills

  • Legal reasoning and analysis using analytic frameworks.
  • Finding and understanding primary sources of legal authority.
  • Providing varying arguments in written form.

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
EDPOL/ELPA/LEGALST 542 · Spring 2027

Law and Public Education

Recorded 2026-10-14
EDPOL/ELPA/LEGALST 542 · Spring 2027

Law and Public Education

Recorded 2026-10-14
EDPOL/ELPA/LEGALST 542 · Spring 2027

Law and Public Education

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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