Improving Student Learning A Strategic Plan for Education Research and Its Utilization (1999) / Chapter Skim
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In no other field are personal experience and ideology so frequently relied on to make policy choices, and in no other field is the research base so inadequate and little used. Comparatively little research is funded, and the task of importing even the strongest research findings into over a million classrooms is daunting.
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But it is not clear how to make the integration of research findings an organic part of the education system. Therefore, the committee proposes a fourth and overarching research question: · How can the use of research knowledge be in creased in schools and school districts?
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Each network will include distinguished researchers working in partnership with practitioners and policy makers and supported by a national coalition of public and private funding organizations and other stakeholders, including legislators, state education agencies, teacher associations organizations reure ..
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an overall structure that is cumulative in nature each step planned to build on previous steps. Our excitement about the idea of a Strategic Education Research Program has not blinded us to the risks.
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· CoZZaborative Finding answers to each of the hub research questions will require the combined insights of many fields including cognitive functioning, social processes, and organizational change as well as the deployment of the full array of research methods. Asking the right questions will require the wisdom of those who are deeply engaged in practice and the insights of policy makers.
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centers; by the National Science Foundation through its cognitive research program, its new technology and learning centers, its Statewide Systemic Initiative (SSI) ; and by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, which has a strong program of research on the mechanisms of cognition and learning.
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As a first step, the National Academies propose to launch a yearlong national dialogue during which the idea for a Strategic Education Research Program is discussed with all of the professignal groups involved in education. This committee strongly endorses that plan: We urge the federal government in particular, the Department of Education and the National Science Foundation major foundations whose mission includes improving education, state and local education leaders, and education research organizations to join the Academies in this year of dialogue to see if, together, we can transform the SERP idea into a productive collaboration to use the power of science to improve education in the United States.
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Yet, as the twentieth century ends, few people are fully satisfied with the condition of education in the United States Many individuals and institutions have been involved in school reform. From the great education reformers of the nineteenth century -- Horace Mann in the ~ 840s, John Dewey in the ~ 89Os -- to the major philanthropies in the twentieth centu~y -- the Carnegie, Spencer, and Ford Foundations and the Julius Rosenwald Fund (which built schools all over the South)
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