May 10, 2002
House Passes Legislation to Reform Educational-Research Office
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill last week that would replace the Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement with a more autonomous agency that would have a hard-science approach.
Education researchers applaud the restructuring, the latest in the office's troubled history of partisan rancor and suspicions that its research favors the agenda of whatever administration is in the White House.
The bill, the Education Sciences Reform Act,
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