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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:04:28 -0500
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- "What should be the federal agenda for education research in
- the next decade? Where should the priorities be placed for
- educational research and development? Where should OERI (the DOE
- Office of Educational Research and Improvement) put its money?"
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- I believe OERI is already working on trying to improve
- information dissemination. This seems a good priority. I
- would add selection to dissemination. I realize there are
- and always will be concerns with who gets to determine
- what is worthwhile, and I am not sure how to address those
- concerns. But as it now stands there is a veritable flood
- of information, much of it confused and confusing.
- The audience for dissemination would vary. Attention
- ought to be given to providing convenient access to
- research for K-12 teachers and administrators. The
- format should emphasize brevity and clarity (not from
- condescension, but in recognition of competing time
- demands).
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- A "white paper" series might be useful, the idea being
- to survey current and existing work and identify areas of
- need. It might be similar to the Review of Research in Education
- in idea, if not in execution. Perhaps different formats
- could be prepared for different audiences, one for researchers,
- one for media, one for practitioners.
- Instead of urging the greater accretion of more "stuff"
- I guess I am first concerned with taking stock of what we
- already have and making it available an accessible to as
- wide an audience as possible.
- As for specific research projects, I would like to see some
- funding of research into:
- 1. a host of issues related to rural schools including those
- surrounding school and district centralization. In particular,
- arguments for economies or dis-economies of scale, equity, and
- quality.
- 2. the impact of federal legislation and funding on a
- variety of pedagogical, institutional, and curricula levels.
- 3. the relationship between public k-12 education and
- American business strength in an international market. (I
- confess that I include this last one out of conviction that
- it is almost nill, and I am rather tired of the schools being
- the scapegoat of business. But I'm open to being proven wrong.)
- 4. sustaining longitudinal data bases like High School and Beyond.
- Projects of that size and continuity can only be conducted with
- federal support.
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- Tom Mauhs-Pugh
- Cultural Foundations of Education
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