Shift in Regional Education Labs’ Role Stirs Concern
New mission balances rigorous studies with constituent services.
Since the mid-1960s, a far-flung system of regional laboratories has served as the federal government’s bridge between research and practice in education.
Until recently, many of those labs had been run by the same organizations since the program’s inception. Education administrators had long called on the labs for professional-development programs, management help, research reviews, and various other expert services.
Those long-standing relationships were jolted last spring, however, when the Institute of Education Sciences, the arm of the U.S. Department of Education that oversees the labs, announced the results of...
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