Foreword by Jay D. Scribner -- Preface by Sarah Diem & Michelle D. Young -- Introduction: Critical Approaches to Education Policy Analysis by Michelle D. Young & Sarah Diem -- Part I: Emphasis on Methods -- Critically Examining Policy Workers and Policy Work Within State Boards of Education by Michelle D. Young & Amy Luelle Reynolds -- A Critical Policy Analysis of the Politics, Design, and Implementation of Student Assignment Policies by Sarah Diem -- Public Educational Policy as Performance:  A Queer Analysis by Michael P. O'Malley & Tanya A. Long -- The Politics of Student Voice:  Conceptualizing a Model for Critical Analysis by Anjalé D. Welton, Tiffany O. Harris, Karla Altamirano, & Tierra Williams -- When Parents Behave Badly:  A Critical Policy Analysis of Parent Involvement in Schools by Erica Fernández & Gerardo R. López -- A Feminist Critical Policy Analysis of Patriarchy in Leadership by Catherine Marshall, Mark Johnson, & Torrie Edwards -- Part II: Emphasis on Theory -- Silent Covenants in the Neoliberal Era: Critical Race Counter-Narratives on African American Advocacy in Schools by Chandra Gill, LaTosha Cain Nesbitt, & Laurence J. Parker -- Policy Enactments and Critical Policy Analysis: How Institutional Talk Constructs Administrative Logics, Marginalization, and Agency by Rodney S. Whiteman, Brendan D. Maxcy, & Samantha M. Paredes Scribner -- Ontario's Fourth 'R':  A Critical Democratic Analysis of Ontario's Fund-'R'aising Policy by Michelle Milani & Sue Winton -- Examining the Theater of "Listening" & "Learning" by Bradley W. Carpenter -- Utilizing Michel de Certeau in Critical Policy Analysis by Curtis Brewer & Amanda Werts -- Policy Studies Debt: A Feminist Call to Expand Policy Studies Theory by Wanda S. Pillow -- Afterword by Jill Blackmore.