Includes bibliographical references and index.

Critical Approaches to Education Policy Analysis -- Part I. Emphasis on Methods -- Critically Examining Policy Workers and Policy Work Within State Boards of Education -- A Critical Policy Analysis of the Politics, Design, and Implementation of Student Assignment Policies -- Public Educational Policy as Performance: A Queer Analysis -- The Politics of Student Voice: Conceptualizing a Model for Critical Analysis -- When Parents Behave Badly: A Critical Policy Analysis of Parent Involvement in Schools -- A Feminist Critical Policy Analysis of Patriarchy in Leadership -- Part II. Emphasis on Theory -- Silent Covenants in the Neoliberal Era: Critical Race Counter-Narratives on African American Advocacy in Schools -- Policy Enactments and Critical Policy Analysis: How Institutional Talk Constructs Administrative Logics, Marginalization, and Agency -- Ontario's Fourth 'R': A Critical Democratic Analysis of Ontario's Fund-'R'aising Policy -- Policy Studies Debt: A Feminist Call to Expand Policy Studies Theory.

This volume informs the growing number of educational policy scholars on the use of critical theoretical frameworks in their analyses. It offers insights on which theories are appropriate within the area of critical educational policy research and how theory and method interact and are applied in critical policy analyses.