Education Policy

Topic: Education Policy, prepared by Jasper Tyan and Fish Stark

Coursework:

Urban and Education Inequality, Gerald Jaynes

Managing Education Reform, Victor de la Paz (*SOM class, needs instructor approval)

American Education and the Law, William Garfinkel

Econometrics & Data Analysis I and II, depends on semester *empirical approaches to policy

Cities, Suburbs and School Choice, Mira Debs

Public Schools & Public Policy, Mira Debs

Child Care, Society, & Public Policy, Jessica Sager & Janna Wagner

Cities: Making Public Choices in New Haven, John DeStefano (overall urban policy course with substantial school reform focus)

Equity and Innovation in International Education, Cass Walker Harvey

Contacts:

Students: Ryan Sandler (’21), Emil Friedman (’20), Jack Lattimore (’20)

Faculty and staff:

Mira Debs, Education Studies

John De Stefano, Political Science

Jenna Wagner & Jessica Sager, All our Kin

Richard Lemons, Center for School Change

Community leaders: Jenna Wagner & Jessica Sager, All our Kin

Richard Lemons, Center for School Change

Clubs, organizations, activities:

Roosevelt Institute has an Education policy center

Yale College Democrats sometimes do projects on college access/in-state tuition for dreamers/juvenile justice in the spring.

Field experience:

Internships:

Brookings Institution, Washington DC (Caitlin Dermody ’18 interned here)

US Education Department (Tran Le ’19)

State Education Departments

  • New York State Education Department – Office of Bilingual Education and World Languages (Israel Tovar ’17, Jasper Tyan ’17, Tran Le ’19, Emil Friedman ’20, Odette Wang ’20 )

City Education Departments

  • NYC DOE
  • DC Public Schools Central Policy Office (Ben Wong ’19)

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)

Progressive Policy Institute

Fellowships:

Class of 1960 John Heinz Government Service Fellowships

Post-grad opportunities: