Responding to my post "Education Research by Conservative Think
Tanks" [Hake (2007)], ASU's Rebecca Barber has informed me of the
existence of the "Think Tank Review Project"
<http://epsl.asu.edu/epru/thinktankreview.htm>.
"The Think Tank Review Project provides the public, policy makers,
and the press with timely, academically sound reviews of selected
think-tank publications. The project is a collaborative effort of the
Education Policy Research Unit (EPRU . . . .
[<http://epsl.asu.edu/epru/ >]. . . . .) at Arizona State University
and the Education and the Public Interest Center (EPIC . . . .
[<http://education.colorado.edu/epic/ >]. . . . .) at the University
of Colorado."
Think Tank reviews for 2007 are at
<http://epsl.asu.edu/epru/epru_2007_thinktankreview.htm>.
For recent "Bunkum Awards in Education" see
<http://epsl.asu.edu/epru/epru_2006_bunkum.htm>.
Preceding the enumeration of awards is an article "Truthiness in
Education" [Weiner & Molnar (2007)], who write [bracketed by lines
"W&M-W&M-W&M-. . . . .":
W&M-W&M-W&M-W&M-W&M-W&M-W&M-W&M-W&M
At a time when America's education policymakers have nominally
embraced the idea of tying school reform to "scientifically based
research," many of the nation's most influential reports are little
more than junk science. A hodgepodge of private "think tanks" at both
the state and national levels wield significant and very often
undeserved influence in policy discussions by cranking out an array
of well-funded and slickly produced-yet ideologically driven-research.
Often written by people with little discernible expertise and
invariably not subjected to peer review, these reports consistently
end with a findings section that supports the ideological preferences
of the research sponsor.
W&M-W&M-W&M-W&M-W&M-W&M-W&M-W&M-W&M
Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi>
REFERENCES
Hake, R.R. 2007. ""Education Research by Conservative Think Tanks," online at
<http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0706&L=pod&O=A&P=6515>. Post
of 11 Jun 2007 20:16:36-0700 to AERA-D, AERA-L, ARN-L, ASSESS,
EdResMeth, EvalTalk, PhysLrnR, and POD.
Welner, K.G. & A. Molnar. 2007. Education Week, 28 Feb 2007.
Truthiness in Education, online at
<http://epsl.asu.edu/epru/articles/EPSL-0702-407-OWI.pdf> (80kB).
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