University of Utah
Educational Leadership and Policy

ELP 7440: Educational Policy

Instructor: Enrique Alemán, Jr., Ph.D.
Office: 303-E MBH
Office Phone: 801-585-5097
Fax: 801-585-6756
E-Mail: enrique.aleman@ed.utah.edu

Class Session: Aug 23 – Dec 6
Wednesdays 7:15 – 9:45pm
MBH 301

Course Readings:

DATE	TOPICS	READINGS
9/6	Educational Policymaking Environment I	Perlich (2004), Immigrants transform Utah. Sleeter (2004), Context-conscious portraits and context-blind policy.
9/13	Educational Policymaking Environment II	El-Haj (2006), Race, politics, and Arab American youth. Fuller (2003), Education policy under cultural pluralism.
9/20	Educational Policymaking Environment III	Westheimer (2006), Politics and patriotism in education. Gerstl-Pepin (2006), The paradox of poverty narratives.
9/27	Power in the Educational Policymaking Process	Cook-Sather (2002), Authorizing students’ perspectives. Jones (2005), Forces for failure and genocide.
10/4	Educational Policy Actors	Arias (2005), Impact of Brown on Latinos.
10/11	Educational Policy Advocate Roles
10/18	Educational Agenda Setting	McClendon (2003), Setting the governmental agenda.
10/25	Educational Policy Formulation & Adoption	Pillow (2006), Teen pregnancy and education. Douglass (2005), Higher education as a national resource.
11/1	Educational Policy Implementation	Dunbar & Villaruel (2002), Urban school leaders and the implementation of zero-tolerance policies. Dumas & Anyon, (2006), Toward a critical approach to education policy implementation.
11/15	Educational Policy Analysis & Evaluation I	Marshall & Gerstl-Pepin (2005), The politics of policy implementation & analysis. Bensimone & Marshall (2003), Like it or not.
11/22	Educational Policy Analysis & Evaluation II	Taylor , et al. (1997), Doing policy analysis. Brady, et al. (2000), To have or not to have?
11/29	Educational Policy Effects & Outcomes	Morfin, et al. (2006), Hiding the politically obvious. Young (1999). Multifocal educational policy research.