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>Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:21:12 -0500
>From: "Kapinus, Barbara [NEA]" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: FW: Report on Scientifically Based Research Supported by U.S.
> Department of Education
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> FYI. The report, available from the link below is 34 pages.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Edelstein, Fritz [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 9:02 AM
>Subject: Report on Scientifically Based Research Supported by U.S.
>Department of Education
>Importance: High
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>U.S. Department of Education
>Office of Public Affairs, News Branch
>400 Maryland Ave., S.W.
>Washington, D.C. 20202
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>FOR RELEASE
>November 18, 2002
>Contact: David Thomas
>(202) 401-1576
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>REPORT ON SCIENTIFICALLY BASED RESEARCH SUPPORTED BY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
>EDUCATION
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> The U.S. Department of Education has come one step closer to
>ensuring that teaching and learning in the nation's classrooms are based
>on solid, empirical educational practices. Under a joint effort with
>the department, the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy today issued a
>report calling for a major, department-wide effort to fund studies that
>randomly assign students to treatment and control groups, to establish
>what works in educating American children.
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> The report was discussed today at a major policy forum in
>Washington with U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige and senior
>officials from the departments of Education, Health and Human Services,
>Labor, and Justice; the Office of Management and Budget; congressional
>education committees; and major education advocacy groups.
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> The report notes that the U.S. has made little progress in
>raising K-12 educational achievement over the past 30 years, according to
>the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and proposes randomized
>controlled trials as a key to improvement. The report also recommends
>that the department provide strong incentives for the widespread use of
>educational practices proven effective in such randomized controlled
>trials.
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> "A central concept in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is
>that federal funds should support programs and strategies that are backed
>by scientifically based research," said U.S. Secretary of Education Rod
>Paige. "This report offers specific, valuable recommendations for
>implementing that concept in an effective way, so as to spark cumulative
>advances in the quality of American
>education."
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> Randomized trials have identified a few highly effective
>practices in areas such as early reading instruction and school-based
>substance abuse prevention. However, according to
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>Bringing Evidence-Driven Progress To Education: A Recommended Strategy
>for the Department of Education, these instances of proven effectiveness
>are rare, because randomized trials are uncommon in educational
>research. Meanwhile, the study designs that are commonly used produce
>erroneous results in many cases, according to evidence discussed in the
>report.
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> Unlike education, randomized trials in medicine, employment and
>welfare policy, and other fields, are considered the "gold standard" for
>evaluating the effectiveness of interventions. In medicine, they have
>produced extraordinary advances in human health. For example randomized
>trials in medicine helped to bring about a decrease in coronary heart
>disease and stroke by more than 50 percent over the past half-century.
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> The report also notes that medicine also provides important
>examples of how even the most careful non-randomized studies -- such as
>those investigating Hormone Replacement Therapy -- can sometimes produce
>erroneous conclusions and lead to practices that are ineffective or
>harmful.
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> Bringing Evidence-Driven Progress To Education: A Recommended
>Strategy for the Department of Education is the product of a
>collaborative initiative between the department and the coalition and is
>funded by the William T. Grant Foundation. The report reflects
>extensive input from department officials and staff, but its final
>conclusions and recommendations are those of the coalition.
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> The coalition is a nonprofit organization, sponsored by the
>Council for Excellence in Government. Its bipartisan board includes
>former government officials David Kessler (former Food and Drug
>Administration Commissioner), Robert Solow (Nobel laureate in economics),
>Jonathan Crane, David Ellwood, Ron Haskins, Diane Ravitch, Laurie
>Robinson, and Isabel Sawhill. The board also includes leading scholars,
>researchers, and other individuals representing a broad range of policy
>areas.
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> A copy of the report has been posted on the coalition's web site
>at http://www.excelgov.org/displayContent.asp?Keyword=prppcEvidence.
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