Critical Approaches to Education Policy Analysis

Foreword by Jay D. Scribner.- Preface by Sarah Diem & Michelle D. Young.- Introduction: Critical Approaches to Education Policy Analysis by Michelle D. Young & Sarah Diem.- Part I: Emphasis on Methods.- Critically Examining Policy Workers and Policy Work Within State Boards of Education by Michelle D. Young & Amy Luelle Reynolds.- A Critical Policy Analysis of the Politics, Design, and Implementation of Student Assignment Policies by Sarah Diem.- Public Educational Policy as Performance: A Queer Analysis by Michael P. O'Malley & Tanya A. Long.- The Politics of Student Voice: Conceptualizing a Model for Critical Analysis by Anjalé D. Welton, Tiffany O. Harris, Karla Altamirano, & Tierra Williams.- When Parents Behave Badly: A Critical Policy Analysis of Parent Involvement in Schools by Erica Fernández & Gerardo R. López.- A Feminist Critical Policy Analysis of Patriarchy in Leadership by Catherine Marshall, Mark Johnson, & Torrie Edwards.- Part II: Emphasis on Theory.- Silent Covenants in the Neoliberal Era: Critical Race Counter-Narratives on African American Advocacy in Schools by Chandra Gill, LaTosha Cain Nesbitt, & Laurence J. Parker.- Policy Enactments and Critical Policy Analysis: How Institutional Talk Constructs Administrative Logics, Marginalization, and Agency by Rodney S. Whiteman, Brendan D. Maxcy, & Samantha M. Paredes Scribner.- Ontario's Fourth 'R': A Critical Democratic Analysis of Ontario's Fund-'R'aising Policy by Michelle Milani & Sue Winton.- Examining the Theater of "Listening" & "Learning" by Bradley W. Carpenter.- Utilizing Michel de Certeau in Critical Policy Analysis by Curtis Brewer & Amanda Werts.- Policy Studies Debt: A Feminist Call to Expand Policy Studies Theory by Wanda S. Pillow.- Afterword by Jill Blackmore.