Cheryl van Tilburg's List: Research on Education

US Department of Education's program to analyze scientific research on education. See how several math and reading curricula stack up.

Deborah Ball (U-Mich) and Francesca Forzani unravel why so much of education research is so underwhelming. Their conclusion: most education research skirts around the edges of the actual educational transaction, avoiding the real heart of the matter. Good stuff for those frustrated by the state of education research.

Hilarious article in BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) that parodies the insistance that all medical treatment be based on rigorous, objective data. Since the use of parachutes "to prevent death from gravitational challenge" has never been studied with randomized, controlled trials, they shouldn't necessarily be adopted as a strategy. Hahahahaha!