PUBL 610 -03 Special Topic:  Education Policy Analysis

To be offered spring 2018 or fall 2018

Instructor: Jane Arnold Lincove, Assoc. Prof. School of Public Policy

Course Description:

In the US and throughout the world, governments play a central role in education as a regulator, provider, and funder. This course focuses on applying policy analytic frameworks to questions of the role of government in education and the efficiency equity, and justice of education policies. Students will learn economic, sociological. ethical and political frameworks for policy analysis an apply these frameworks to current education policy debates. The course is appropriate for masters students with an interest in education and/or applied policy analysis and doctoral students planning dissertation work in the education policy field.

Pre-requisites:  The completion of Econ 600 or PUBL 604 is strongly recommended.

 Course requirements and grading:

Assignments including problems sets, policy memos, participation in a class simulation project, and a final paper. For the class project, students will research, discuss, and make recommendations to remedy a policy problem in education.

Credit/no credit grading is not permitted for this course.  Anyone registered credit/no credit will receive no credit.

For further details contact the instructor for the course: Jane Arnold Lincove

jlincove@umbc.edu

Ephesians 4:6-13 (MSG) - “You were all called to travel on the same road and in the same direction, so stay together, both outwardly and inwardly. You have one Master, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who rules over all, works through all, and is present in all. Everything you are and think and do is permeated with Oneness. But that doesn’t mean you should all look and speak and act the same. Out of the generosity of Christ, each of us is given his own gift…He handed out gifts above and below, filled heaven with his gifts, filled earth with his gifts. He handed out gifts of apostle, prophet, evangelist, and pastor-teacher to train Christ’s followers in skilled servant work, working within Christ’s body, the church, until we’re all moving rhythmically and easily with each other, efficient and graceful in response to God’s Son, fully mature adults, fully developed within and without, fully alive like Christ.”

The roles that God has given in His church are gifts!  They are: wonderful, abundant, generous, overflowing gifts
Gifts all around, filling and causing us to move with each other, responding to God’s Son in maturity and love

Let’s thank God for His church, acknowledging and giving thanks to Him for the wonderful ways He has called each one of us within His community.  Thank Him for how He has called you today, in this season and time.  And thank Him for how He has called a brother or sister - your friend, your leader, or someone in a different missional group or campus.  Let’s ask for the oneness that God has given His church to permeate all that we do, and for effective ministry (skilled servant work) to occur.

Finally, let’s do one of the things that God brought us together to do.  Let’s worship Him with this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQWFzMvCfLE

- BR

John 10:14-16, 27, 5 (NLT) - ² But the one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. ³ The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep recognize his voice and come to him. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. ⁴ After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice.  ⁵ They won’t follow a stranger; they will run from him because they don’t know his voice.”
¹⁴ “I am the good shepherd; I know my own sheep, and they know me, ¹⁵ just as my Father knows me and I know the Father. So I sacrifice my life for the sheep. ¹⁶ I have other sheep, too, that are not in this sheepfold. I must bring them also. They will listen to my voice, and there will be one flock with one shepherd.
²⁷ My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸ I give them eternal life, and they will never perish…

It is so heartening that Jesus promised that His sheep would hear His voice.  Jesus walks ahead of us, and we follow Him as one flock because we recognize His call.  If you are one of His sheep, be assured and overjoyed today that you may hear His voice.

If you find that you often have trouble hearing the sound of His voice, do consider, “What can I do to better listen to Him?”  Some questions that may help:
1 - Do I need to walk more closely, so that His voice is not in the distance?  (Is there an area He has asked me to follow or obey that I have not yet done so?)
2 - Do I need to better listen to and walk in the direction of and listen to the shepherds God has given me?

Let’s ask for a richness of hearing and following His voice in us, in our church.  Let’s pray for those who follow and for those who lead.  Let’s ask for even greater closeness and quickness in following His voice.

Let’s also pray according to v. 16 for, asking God that He will send us to and bring the “other sheep” who are to hear the voice of the Good Shepherd through our church and ministries.

- BR