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04 Oct 08
Vicki DavisFrom this article in the New York Times:
"The University of Northern Colorado is about to launch the Education Innovation Institute.
University and government officials will detail plans on Sept. 24 for what is being billed as the "leading authority on education policy research and analysis." UNC has been a leader in the field of education since its founding in 1889 as the State Normal School."
Another research program -- they started testing cash incentives. I would wish that they would test educational networking and other tools. In addition to testing how to improve lower scores and make them medium - -how about how to make gifted better as well?
I often wonder where the next einstein will come from because Einstein would have been in remedials in American education. And remedials in the US don't make kids like einstein.-
Roland G. Fryer Jr., a Harvard economist, has often complained that while pharmaceutical companies have poured billions of dollars each year into studying new drugs and Boeing devoted $3 billion to develop the 777 jet, there has been little spent on efforts to scientifically test educational theories.
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The initiative will team economists, marketers and others interested in turning around struggling schools with educators in New York, Washington and Chicago.
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the research is intended to infuse education with the data-driven approach that is common in science and business,
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He compared the current methods of educational research to the prescriptions of an ineffective doctor.
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Mr. Broad asked Dr. Fryer to come up with “the next big idea” in education, and Dr. Fryer began consulting with companies that market to younger people
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