Q: As a Senior Vice President of ETS’s Policy Evaluation & Research Center as well as the former Vice President for Assessment of the University of Tennessee Systems, what do you think is the role of education policy? In fact, what is education policy?
Dr. Nettles: Education public policy represents the actions taken by government to affect on education institutions and the people who participate in them. It ranges from the funding provided through annual appropriations to decisions made to regulate and control behavior. It encompasses laws passed by elected officials and established and enforced by bureaucrats to implement the laws that are enacted by the three branches of government.
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