This?
http://www.aera.net/uploadedFile...Feature%
203.pdf
E. D. Hirsch makes the argument for relying on "consensus research," rather than proclamations that "research has shown." Hirsch values those who "toil in the psychometric vinyards."
Gary Orfield has set a research agenda that seems oriented at documenting achievement gaps rather than remedying them.
School board members are responsible for adopting programs that remedy the effects of past discrimination and protecting schoolchildren from programs that perpetuate those effects. Who can reliably advise board members? Can board members rely upon administrators with Ed.D.s if the most reliable research somes from a subset of the ed PhDs?
Imagine a supermarket grocery chain conducting a research study. The purpose: to determine the best way to cut down on shoplifting in their stores.
They conduct the experiment for 14 days, using three stores, A, B, and C:
(A) This store has installed mirrors at the ends of every aisle, based on this (you have to think about it a bit).
(B) This store has hired an army of people. Each employee is to follow each individual shopper around as he or she progresses through the store and to checkout.
(C) This is the control store.
At the end of 14 days, the results are in. Store A (mirrors) has seen a 10% reduction in shoplifting incidents, according to the store's records. Store B (someone following you around) has seen a remarkable 92% reduction in shoplifting incidents. And Store C reports a slight increase in the number of shoplifting incidents.
The conclusion is obvious: We should have people following us around in grocery stores to make us not steal.
I wish I could go into it more, but that's education research to me, and I think that idea dovetails neatly into this post.
On the one hand, we have "solutions" proferred by attorneys and best-selling authors and people who use government IP addresses that no one likes and that they themselves don't fully understand; on the other, we have "solutions" that everyone seems to be working for but don't accomplish the necessary gains.
Each fits neatly into what Jon Stewart called the "bi-chromatic spectrum of American political life"--the "this way or the highway" conservative approach that tends to win elections but does little else or the "this way, that way, whatever in between way" un-conservative approach that treats problems as though they have no root cause or meaning to our lives.
And, yeah, I should have made this a post--I should have made this a post. Sorry. Sorry. I'll just press "Delete" here, oh, wait!--
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Research has its place. A learned professor once told me that if the teachers "buy into" whatever reading program (or whatever curriculum) that you are using, it will succeed." It's all in the teacher using it...
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Research should be done in different ways. So it is natural that there would be some good ones and bad ones.
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