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Datnow, Amanda; Sutherland, Stephanie – Peabody Journal of Education, 2002
Examines the politics that arise in the research and evaluation of school reform efforts, drawing on qualitative data from a study of comprehensive school reform to elucidate methodological issues in several areas; discussing how the researchers were perceived, how participants used researchers' research and presence in political ways, and how…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Educational Change, Educational Improvement

Weissberg, Robert – Perspectives on Political Science, 1995
Argues that radical left-wing academics faced little opposition in their attempts to dominate intellectual theory in political science. Maintains that this occurred because quantitative research so displaced intellectual theory as to render it irrelevant. Describes the predominant emphasis on statistical methodology and paints a bleak picture of…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Educational Trends