Education Policy

*Updated October 2024

Topic: Education Policy

Coursework:

Fall 2024

  • EDST 232: US Federal Education Policy (Eleanor Schiff)
  • CSJE 210: Public School Policy Reform in the United States (Nathan Dudley)

Spring 2025

  • EDST 230: American Education and the Law (William Garfinkel)
  • EDST 271: Urban Inequalities and Educational Inequality (Gerald Jaynes)
  • PLSC 214: The Politics of American Public Policy (Jacob Hacker)
  • EDST 282 Comparative International Education (Mira Debs)
  • EDST 225 Child Care, Society, and Public Policy (Jessica Sager and Janna Wagner)

Faculty and staff:

Mira Debs, Education Studies

Jenna Wagner & Jessica Sager, All Our Kin

Richard Lemons, Partners for Educational Leadership

Clubs, organizations, activities:

  • Policy Center at ISPS
  • The Yale Policy Institute – Education
  • 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.

Internships:

  • Brookings Institution, Washington DC
  • 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
  • National Coalition on School Diversity

Non-profit or Advocacy Organizations (search for organizations doing focused work in your area of interest)

  • National Coalition for Diverse Schools

US Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights

City Education Departments

  • New Haven Public Schools, via President’s Public Service Fellowship
  • New York City Public Schools
  • DC Public Schools Central Policy Office