"Education policy consists of the principles and policy decisions that influence the field of education, as well as the collection of laws and rules that govern the operation of education systems."
The laws, regulations, and initiatives that shape education at the national, state, and local levels.
Early childhood education policy: Policies and programs designed to educate children from birth to age five.
K-12 education policy: Policies and programs designed to educate children from kindergarten through 12th grade.
Higher education policy: Policies and programs designed to educate individuals beyond high school, including colleges, universities, and vocational schools.
Teacher preparation and certification: Policies and programs designed to prepare and certify individuals to become teachers.
Curriculum and standards: Policies and programs designed to establish what students should learn and how they should be taught.
Assessment and accountability: Policies and programs designed to measure student learning and hold schools and teachers accountable for their performance.
School funding and finance: Policies and programs designed to provide funding for schools and how that funding is allocated.
School choice and competition: Policies and programs designed to give families more options for their children's education.
Special education and inclusion: Policies and programs designed to ensure that all students, including those with disabilities, have access to a quality education.
English language learners: Policies and programs designed to support students whose first language is not English.
Technology and learning: Policies and programs designed to integrate technology into education and how it is used for teaching and learning.
Teacher evaluations and merit pay: Policies and programs designed to evaluate teacher performance and possibly provide merit pay for high-performing teachers.
Discipline and school safety: Policies and programs designed to maintain a safe and orderly school environment.
Parental involvement and engagement: Policies and programs designed to involve and engage parents in the education of their children.
Education policy and politics: The role of politics in shaping education policy and reform.
Standardized testing: A policy that requires all students to take the same type of test and evaluate their academic performance.
Common Core: A set of academic standards designed to ensure that all students are learning the same skills and knowledge at each grade level.
Charter schools: Publicly funded schools that are given more freedom to operate and are not bound by traditional school district policies.
School choice: An educational policy that permits parents to choose their child's school, rather than being assigned to a specific school.
Voucher policy: A policy that provides public funding to students to attend private schools.
Early childhood education: Education programs for children from birth to age five to help them learn the basic skills needed for success in school.
Teacher evaluations: A policy that assesses teacher performance through observations, student test scores, and other measures.
School funding: Policies that determine how much money schools receive, which can impact the quality of education they provide.
Special education: Policies and programs to support students with disabilities in their academic and social development.
Higher education reform: Policies that aim to reduce the cost of higher education, make it more accessible, and improve its quality.
STEM education: Education policies that promote the study of science, technology, engineering, and math.
Multilingual education: Education policies that support the teaching of multiple languages to students.
Online learning: Educational policies that permit or require students to take courses online, outside the traditional classroom setting.
Culinary education: Policies that support the development of culinary skills and programs.
Homeschooling: Policies that allow parents to educate their children at home.
Apprenticeship and vocational education: Programs that offer hands-on training and work experience.
Distance learning: Educational policies that allow students to access content and instruction remotely, through electronic means.
Decentralization: Educational policy that transfers the control of education from state or central authorities to local ones.
"Education governance may be shared between the local, state, and federal government at varying levels."
"Examples of such educational institutions may include early childhood education centers, kindergarten to 12th grade schools, two- and four-year colleges or universities, graduate and professional education institutes, adult-education establishments, and job-training schemes."
"The educational goals of these institutions influence education policy."
"Examples of areas subject to debate in education policy, specifically from the field of schools, include school size, class size, school choice, school privatization, police in schools, tracking, teacher selection, 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."
"Issues in education policy also address problems within higher education. The Pell Institute analyzes the barriers experienced by teachers and students within community colleges and universities. These issues involve undocumented students, sex education, and federal-grant aides."
"Education policy analysis is the scholarly study of education policy."
"For example, researchers are affiliated with schools and departments of education, public policy, psychology, economics, sociology, and human development. Additionally, sociology, political science, economics, and law are all disciplines that can be used to better understand how education systems function, what their impacts are, and how policies might be changed for different conditions."
"Education policy is sometimes considered a sub-field of social policy and public policy."
"Examples of education policy analysis may be found in such academic journals as Education Policy Analysis Archives and in university-policy centers such as the National Education Policy Center housed at the University of Colorado Boulder."
"Some analysts see education policy in terms of social engineering."
"Education governance may be shared between the local, state, and federal government at varying levels."
"The principles and policy decisions that influence the field of education, as well as the collection of laws and rules that govern the operation of education systems."
"Examples of such educational institutions may include early childhood education centers, kindergarten to 12th grade schools, two- and four-year colleges or universities, graduate and professional education institutes, adult-education establishments, and job-training schemes."
"These education policies can 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, police in schools, tracking, teacher selection, 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."
"The Pell Institute analyzes the barriers experienced by teachers and students within community colleges and universities. These issues involve undocumented students, sex education, and federal-grant aides."
"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."
"Researchers are affiliated with schools and departments of education, public policy, psychology, economics, sociology, and human development."
"Examples of education policy analysis may be found in such academic journals as Education Policy Analysis Archives and in university-policy centers such as the National Education Policy Center housed at the University of Colorado Boulder."