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How Educators and Researchers Can Work Together to Improve Schools: A Collection

Scholars and school administrators share their best advice on creating successful partnerships

Every January, 澳门跑狗论坛 blogger Rick Hess releases his RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings. In conjunction, 澳门跑狗论坛 Opinion takes a closer look at some of the data Hess uses for his rankings and explores a relevant issue in public scholarship. This year, Hess, in an essay co-authored with educator Mike Goldstein, asks whether researchers and education leaders can ever fulfill the promise of collaboration. Too often, Hess and Goldstein say, educators point to evidence as justification for their decisions rather than use evidence to inform them. For their own reasons, scholars go along with the charade.

To move past this devil鈥檚 bargain, some education leaders and researchers have formalized their relationships around specific aims, creating what are known as 鈥渞esearch-practice partnerships.鈥 But is this innovation really better at bridging the gap between research and practice than other arrangements? The authors of the other essays in this collection, all veterans of RPPs, believe it is, and they describe what it takes to make it successful.

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School & District Management Opinion The Empty Pageantry of Education Research
Educators and researchers must do their homework to defeat perverse incentives, advise Rick Hess and Mike Goldstein.
Rick Hess & Mike Goldstein, January 18, 2022
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School & District Management Opinion Don鈥檛 Let Education Research Languish in Academic Journals
How can we move research into the real world of schools? Scholar John Papay explains.
John Papay, January 18, 2022
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School & District Management Opinion Trust Keeps Our School-Research Relationship Alive in the Pandemic
An educator and a researcher describe how their team was able to nudge forward a plan for equity even as COVID changed almost everything.
Katherine Mortimer & Scott Gray, January 18, 2022
3 min read
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School & District Management Opinion What It Takes for Universities to Conduct Useful Education Research
Many institutions lack the resources to make research-school partnerships successful, warns Thomas S. Dee.
Thomas S. Dee, January 18, 2022
3 min read
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Policy & Politics Opinion This Year鈥檚 Most Influential Education Scholars (in Charts)
Who are the top researchers? Where do they teach? What do they study?
January 18, 2022
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