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Education policy refers to the collection of laws and rules that govern the operation of education systems.
Education occurs in many forms for many purposes through many institutions. Examples include early childhood education, kindergarten through to 12th grade, two and four year colleges or universities, graduate and professional education, adult education and job training. Therefore, education policy can directly affect the education people engage in at all ages.
Examples of areas subject to debate in education policy, specifically from the field of schools, include school size, class size, school choice, school privatization, tracking, teacher education and certification, teacher pay, teaching methods, curricular content, graduation requirements, school infrastructure investment, and the values that schools are expected to uphold and model.
Education policy analysis is the scholarly study of education policy. It seeks to answer questions about the purpose of education, the objectives (societal and personal) that it is designed to attain, the methods for attaining them and the tools for measuring their success or failure. Research intended to inform education policy is carried out in a wide variety of institutions and in many academic disciplines. Important researchers are affiliated with departments of psychology, economics, sociology, and human development, in addition to schools and departments of education or public policy. Examples of education policy analysis may be found in such academic journals as Education Policy Analysis Archives.
List of Researchers
- George Akerlof
- Joshua Angrist
- Gary Becker
- Christopher Berry
- Charles Bidwell
- Amy Claessens
- James S. Coleman
- Roland Fryer
- Adam Gamoran
- Gene V Glass
- Eric Hanushek
- William G. Howell
- Linda Darling-Hammond
- James Heckman
- Ariel Kalil
- Thomas Kane
- Alan Krueger
- Robert J. LaLonde
- Jens Ludwig
- Henry Levin
- Susan E. Mayer
- Ofer Malamud
- Richard Murnane
- Gary Orfield
- Andrew C. Porter
- Stephen Raudenbush
- Diane Ravitch
- Fernando Reimers
- Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
See also
- Public Policy
- Education Economics
- Educational Evaluation
- NCLB
- Harris School of Public Policy Studies
External links
- American Education Research Association
- British Educational Research Association
- Brookings Institution Brown Center on Education
- Canadian Society for the Study of Education
- Educational Research Service
- Eidos Institute, AUS
- Institute of Education Sciences (U.S. Department of Education)
- National Foundation for Educational Research (UK)
- New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz
- Thomas B. Fordham Foundation Institute
- Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education
- Wisconsin Center for Education Research
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