Educational Policies Regarding Curriculum and Testing

This course emphasizes three school policy domains that directly affect students: curriculum, tracking, and testing. In each of these areas, policy setting and implementation exists at a variety of levels-national, state, school district, school, and classroom. We examine the belief systems underlying policies in these domains, the methods by which these policies are formulated, the individuals who help set policies and who have to implement them, the consequences of implementation, and the kinds of evidence employed to justify the policies and determine their consequences.