This innovative new handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which domestic education policy is framed and influenced by global institutions and actors.

Table of Contents

• Notes on Contributors
• Foreword
• Part I: The Policy of Education Governance
• 1. A Discursive Analysis of Neoliberal Policies and Practices in Education
• 2. The History of Educational Policy and Governance
• 3. Dominant Trends in the Evolution of K‐12 Education Policy in the United States
• 4. Bridging the Research and Politics Gap to Set the Policy Agenda
• 5. The Continuing Evolution of School Choice in America
• 6. The Training of School Leaders
• 7. Potential Impacts on the Future of Public and Private Education in a Global Economy
• 8 Leading the Way Out of Neoliberal Devastation: Luchar y vivir con dignidad (To Fight and to Live with Dignity)
• 9. Should Education be Considered a Commodity?
• Part II: American Politics and Citizenship
• 10. The Impact of Education Policies on Black Students’ School Functioning
• 11. Parents’ Social Justice Activism Shapes School Policy
• 12. Contemporary Decolonolization
• 13. Toward a New Democracy
• 14. Potential Legal Challenges in Educating Undocumented Immigrant Populations
• Part III: Democracy in Action
• 15. Opening Doors
• 16. Democracy in Action
• 17. Gun Violence and School Safety in American Schools
• 18. Grade Retention
• 19. Who Is Caring for Our Youngest Citizens?
• Part IV: Trending Education Policy Through Technology and Data
• 20. Technology as a Focus of Education Policy
• 21. Understanding Ethical Concerns Surrounding Big Data and Learning Analytics in Higher Education
• 22. Modeling the Virtuous
• 23. Digital Lifelong‐Learning Literacy
• 24. A Matrix to Address Ethical Concerns in the Design, Application, and Documentation of Learning Analytics in Postsecondary Education