September 24, 1999

Problems With Research on Education

To the Editor:

In "The Black Hole of Education Research" (August 6), you identify several reasons why education research has not had the same influence on policy and practice as has research in some other fields. ... In contrasting the impacts of health research and education research, you might have noted that the federal government's major health-research agency, the National Institutes of Health, invests roughly 1,000 times more in research than the federal