Learning Objectives
- Explore education policy and reform in the United States and the ways in which it is shaped by current debates over the proper role of government in domestic political life.
- Understand the factors that shape policy in the United States and the steps in the policymaking process.
- Examine the current educational reforms in the United States.
- Discuss the politics of American health care policy, including the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and recent attempts to roll it back.
- Identify other major social welfare areas and the important policies and issues they are meant to address.