Cover Story: Transforming America's Schools

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Jonathan Potts: Cover Story: Transforming America's Schools, Carnegie Mellon Today November 19, 2005

Mitchell Weisburgh sent me the link to this interesting article about a new program at Carnegie Mellon "to train doctoral students from several disciplines - including psychology, computer science, philosophy and statistics - to conduct applied educational research." I am all in favour of research - it is, after all, what I do - but need to caution that training in reasearch assumes - doesn't it? - that an appropriate research paradigm in the field is already in place. More...