Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Biased Education Research

A new report indicates that while universities publish 15 times as much research on education as "non-partisan" think tanks (eg Goldwater Institute), the think tanks are in the press half as often.

The problem is that think tank research is rarely peer reviewed before (or after) its findings are released. This allows for some fairly dubious "research" to hit the news cycle.

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