"Despite four
decades of continuing effort, largely on the part of the Federal Government, this
nation has not been able to build a system of scientific research that fuels far-reaching
improvements in educational practice. This is not for lack of good minds or good work. There
are pockets of significant research, just as there are excellent classrooms and schools. But the
resulting intellectual capital has been too fragmented to have a marked effect on prevailing
practice. We need to become better at accumulating our knowledge, extending it in promising
areas, and incorporating the best of what we know in our teacher training programs and
education curricula and materials. To give education research traction and to significantly
enhance capacity will require new forms of organization that promote closer ties with practice;
governance and management structures that create an environment for research planning that is
protected from political influence; new kinds of partnerships and additional sources of funding."
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