68.035 - Federal Policy as Teacher Policy

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session provides a close look at several emerging federal policies intended to exert influence on teachers and teaching with particular emphasis on implications for equity. A policy trend in recent decades has witnessed a dramatic expansion of the federal role coupled with an emphasis on teachers as the critical in-school resource for children’s learning. We need to better understand the implications of this trend based on analysis and policy feedback. This symposium contributes to this goal through a careful examination of the most recent policy developments at the federal level bearing on the issues associated with the teacher workforce.

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 6: Human Capital

Chair

• Gary Sykes, Educational Testing Service

Papers

• What Educational Leaders Should Know About Teacher Policy Under the Every Student Succeeds Act - Andrew Saultz, Miami University - Oxford; John L. Lane, Michigan State University; Min Sun, University of Washington - Seattle

• Knowledge Distribution as Policy Limitation? Governance Over State Teacher Equity Plans - Jesslyn Hollar, Edgewood College

• Constraint and Variation: State Responses to a Federal Equity Mandate - Gary Sykes, Educational Testing Service; Kacy Martin, Michigan State University

Discussants

• Laura D. Goe, ETS

• Kenneth M Zeichner, University of Washington