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Education policy refers to the collection of laws or rules that govern the operation of Education systems. Education occurs in many forms for many purposes through many institutions. For example, early childhood education, kindergarten through 12th grade, two and four year colleges or universities, graduate and professional education, adult education and job training. Therefore, education policy can directly affect the education people engage in at all ages. Examples of areas subject to debate in education policy, specifically from the field of schools, include school size, class size, school choice, school Privatization , tracking, teacher education and certification, teacher pay, teaching methods, curricular content, graduation requirements, school infrastructure investment, and the values that schools are expected to uphold and model. Education policy analysis is the scholarly study of education policy. It seeks to answer questions about the purpose of education, the objectives (societal and personal) that it is designed to attain, the methods for attaining them and the tools for measuring their success or failure. Research intended to inform education policy is carried out in a wide variety of institutions and in many academic disciplines. Important researchers are affiliated with departments of Psychology , Economics , Sociology , and Human Development , in addition to schools and departments of education or public policy. Examples of education policy analysis may be found in such Academic Journal s as '' Education Policy Analysis Archives ''. List of Researchers
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