Project to Vet Think Tanks’ Work With Eye Out for Ideological Bias
A just-launched project will review education reports released by private think tanks for the quality of their research, methodology, and conclusions, using expert academic reviewers.
The Think Tank Review Project is a joint collaboration of the Arizona State University Education Policy Studies Laboratory and the University of Colorado’s Education and Public Interest Center. It has pledged to provide “expert reviews” to policymakers, the news media, and the public within two weeks of a report’s release. The first such reviews—of three reports released since January—were posted online last week at http://thinktankreview.org .
The project reflects a growing concern among researchers that studies on hot-button issues increasingly appear in public without having undergone an independent peer review by scholars. The project’s creators particularly hope to provide a counterpoint to what they view as a proliferation of education reports coming from think tanks that were founded to advance particular ideological points of view. ( "Research: Researching the Researchers," ...
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