The Black Hole of Education Research

Why do academic studies play such a minimal role in efforts to improve the schools?

A couple of years ago, the education-policy analyst Diane Ravitch checked into a Manhattan hospital with leg pains and shortness of breath, symptoms of a pulmonary embolism. As doctors gathered around to discuss her ailment, recalls Ms. Ravitch, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research who headed federal

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