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  7. Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:50:00 EST
  8. Sender:       Professionals and Students Discussing Education Policy Analysis
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  10. From:         WEIDMAN@PITTVMS.BITNET
  11. Subject:      Re: Send a message to Riley
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  14. For more than two decades, there has been such a paltry budget for
  15. investigator-initiated educational research projects that very little of
  16. what I would call legitimately "basic" work on education has been funded.
  17. Between the labs and centers, the feds and local interest groups have
  18. increasingly set the agenda for educational research rather than the scholars
  19. and researchers.  Further, this has led to the pursuit of a more and more
  20. overtly political educational research agenda.  Hence, my recommendation is
  21. that the educational research enterprise be viewed in similar ways to the
  22. medical research enterprise, with significant sums being allocated for
  23. competitive awards to investigator-initiated projects.
  24. John Weidman, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh
  25. (412)648-1772    WEIDMAN@PITTVMS
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