Textbook Readings

• Kraft & Furlong: ch. 10
• Monsma: ch. 6

Presentation: Education Policy, Home Schools, and Christian Schools 

Policy Briefs

Attached Files:

•  Policy Brief Instructions (16.259 KB)
•  Finding Legislation (388.949 KB)
•  Policy Brief Template (20.299 KB)
•  Policy Analysis Graduate Rubric (23.502 KB)
•  Policy Brief Rough Draft (23.984 KB)
•  Policy Brief Sample-Final (20.574 KB)
•  Should Government Be Involved (139.714 KB)
•  The United States Constitution (340.828 KB)

PADM 550

Policy Briefs Instructions

For Modules/Weeks 3–7, you are expected to submit a 1 1/2–2-page paper (not including the title page, abstract, and reference page) in current APA format in which the May-Can-Should model is applied in the context of the policy focus in the assigned module/week. Be certain to emphasize a focused analysis of a particular issue chosen from the broader policy concentration for the assigned module/week. You must include citations from:

1. all of the required reading and presentations from the assigned module/week

2. all relevant sources from Modules/Weeks 1–2 (especially the “Biblical Principles of Government” article), and

3. 3–5 outside sources. NOTE: These sources should be focused on the problem and the piece of legislation, and you may find that you need more than just 3-5 sources to adequately research and discuss these items.

4.

Please feel free to use the

following link

for the purposes of additional research.

Students often struggle with keeping the analysis needed for these policy briefs to just 2 pages of content at most (not counting the title page and references), and it can be hard to see past one’s choice of wording to discover that there are indeed many ways to say the same thing with less words. Attached are “before and after” samples of the same policy brief; the first was too long and includes edits of how to shorten it, and the second shows the finished product at 2 pages. Review these before writing your first policy brief.

NOTE: the sample briefs are not perfect in every respect in terms of following the “May-Can-Should” analysis. It is mean to show you how to be more concise in communicating ideas.

Submit the appropriate assignment by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of the assigned module/week.