*Updated June 2022

Topic: Education Policy, prepared by Jasper Tyan and Fish Stark

Coursework:

Fall 2023

• EDST 209: Identity, Diversity, and Policy in U.S. Education
• EDST 232: US Federal Education Policy
• CSMC 390: Public School Policy Reform in the United States
• EDST 238: The Politics of Public Education

Previous terms:

• Managing Education Reform, Victor de la Paz (*SOM class, needs instructor approval)
• Econometrics & Data Analysis I and II, depends on semester *empirical approaches to policy
• Cities, Suburbs and School Choice
• Cities: Making Public Choices in New Haven, John DeStefano (overall urban policy course with substantial school reform focus)
• EDST 230: American Education and the Law, William Garfinkel
• EDST 271: Urban and Education Inequality, Gerald Jaynes
• PLSC 214: The Politics of American Public Policy, Jacob Hacker (does not talk about education policy specifically, but the broader institutions that shape policy in the U.S. Also teaches useful skills for landing policy internships like writing policy memos)
• EDST 282: Comparative International Education, Mira Debs
• EDST 225: Child Care, Society, & Public Policy, Jessica Sager & Janna Wagner
• EDST 240: Pursuing Racial Justice in Segregated Schools, Sarah Camiscoli

Contacts:

Students: Yaz Liow (’25), Ryan Sandler (’21), Emil Friedman (’20), Jack Lattimore (’20)

Faculty and staff:

Mira Debs, Education Studies

John De Stefano, Political Science

Jenna Wagner & Jessica Sager, All our Kin

Richard Lemons, Center for School Change

Community leaders: Jenna Wagner & Jessica Sager, All our Kin

Richard Lemons, Center for School Change

Clubs, organizations, activities:

• Policy Center at ISPS
• The Yale Policy Institute Education Center (Yaz Liow ’25)
• Yale College Democrats sometimes do projects on college access/in-state tuition for dreamers/juvenile justice in the spring.
  • Legislative fellows can work to propose education policy in the fall and advocate for the passage of bills before the CGA in the spring. (Yaz Liow ’25)

Internships:

• Brookings Institution, Washington DC (Caitlin Dermody ’18 interned here)
• Century Foundation, New York City (focus on early childhood and school integration)
• Center for Education Reform (DC education policy advocacy nonprofit)
• Center for American Progress (DC policy think tank – K-12 and Higher Education groups)
• Learning Policy Institute (founded by Linda Darling-Hammond, in DC and Bay area)
• Progressive Policy Institute
• Democrats for Education Reform/Education Reform Now (Yaz Liow ’25)
• National Coalition on School Diversity (Yaz Liow ’25)

US Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights (Tran Le ’19)

State Education Departments

• New York State Education Department – Office of Bilingual Education and World Languages (Israel Tovar ’17, Jasper Tyan ’17, Tran Le ’19, Emil Friedman ’20, Odette Wang ’20, Michael Martinez ’21 )

City Education Departments

• NYC DOE
• DC Public Schools Central Policy Office (Ben Wong ’19)

Fellowships:

Class of 1960 John Heinz Government Service Fellowships