Scholarship's Political Punch Examined
Policymakers, educators urged to become better ‘consumers.’
Bemoaning the quality of education research—and offering prescriptions for improving it—have become popular pastimes in recent years. Now, some scholars say, it is time to take a hard look at the consumers who use, underwrite, ignore, or misconstrue the knowledge born from studies in the field.
“The idea is really to think about the soft tissue that connects researchers to public officials, and to think about how do you create an environment where people are rewarded for doing good research and punished for not doing it, or not using it,” said Frederick M. Hess, the director of educational policy studies for the American Enterprise Institute, the Washington think tank that was slated to sponsor a daylong conference on the topic this week.
The May 21 conference, which was expected to draw upwards of 275 participants, comes at a time when the ecosystem that surrounds and breeds education...
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