Scholars Seek New Audience For Research

When 11,000 education researchers descend on Chicago this week, they'll be doing more than talking with one another about regression coefficients and multivariate analyses.

Some of them will get on a bus and visit 10 local schools that are experimenting with reforms. Others will attend discussions on researchers' relations with the media. And some will meet with teachers who are engaged in classroom research or with state and local policymakers...