Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).
Spring 2027
Critical Issues in Educational Policy
Critical Issues in Educational Policy connects education policy to rigorous research evidence to understand policies, processes, and outcomes.
offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Mollie Mcquillan
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Identify and summarize how American education policy has (or has not) evolved over the past 50 years.
Demonstrate knowledge about the significance (or lack thereof) of research evidence in developing American education policy practice by writing a paper summarizing current evidence on a policy or practice and how that evidence has or has not inspired practical changes in the schools.
Demonstrate knowledge, through class participation and preparation of a final paper, of how rigorous research evidence can inform policy and practice.
Articulate, through class participation and preparation of a final paper, how research evidence can be effectively “translated” to impact policy and practice.
Source: UW Guide
Grade history
↗ average GPA
6464 letter grades
A89.1%89.1%
AB7.8%7.8%
B3.1%3.1%
BC0.0%0.0%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.0%0.0%
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Prerequisites
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- Graduate/professional standing
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- Graduate/professional standing
Professors
Spring 2027Historical instructors & teaching patterns
MOLLIE MCQUILLAN is recorded teaching in Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
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Spring 2027Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEM 001 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 24 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades).
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Topics
- Interdisciplinary applications of research evidence to education policy
- Evolution of American education policy over the past 50 years
Skills
- Connecting education policy to rigorous research evidence
- Translating research findings to practitioners and policymakers
- Summarizing the evolution of American education policy
Grades
Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.
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Grade distribution · % of letter grades
A100.0%100.0%
AB0.0%0.0%
B0.0%0.0%
BC0.0%0.0%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.0%0.0%
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Through Spring 2026
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Critical Issues in Educational Policy
Recorded 2026-10-14Raw records
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