Proof, Policy, and Practice - Understanding the Role of Evidence in Improving Education - Bok av Paul E. Lingenfelter - Häftad
How can we \fix\ our schools? Improve graduation rates in college? What works?These are questions that make the headlines and vex policy makers, practitioners, and educational researchers. While they strive to improve society, there are frequently gulfs of mutual incomprehension among them.Academics, longing for more influence, may wrongly fault irrationality, ideology, or ignorance for the failure of research to inform policy and practice more powerfully. Policy makers and practitioners may doubt..