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The New Stupid
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Hess, Frederick M. – Educational Leadership, 2009
A decade ago, many education leaders dismissed student achievement data and systematic research as having only limited utility when it came to improving schools or school systems. That was the "old stupid." But now the pendulum has swung the other way. In the "new stupid," data-based decision making and research-based practice can stand in for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Research Utilization, Politics of Education, Data
"This," as Paul Harvey Was Wont To Say, "Is the Rest of the Story."
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Achilles, C. M.; And Others – 1996
A project conducted in Tennessee from 1984 through 1989, Student Teacher Achievement Ratio (Project STAR), serves as a context for a discussion of educational research. The decisions required in major research projects and the problems in carrying out research are seldom discussed in conferences that present research results as completed efforts.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Databases, Decision Making