Various education research journals and research organizations that release research on education topics were surveyed to determine whether they subject their research to external peer review. While journals responding consistently employed peer review processes, only some research organizations did. As a policy initiative, for-profit operation of public schools has not lived up to the claims of its proponents. They do, however, seem capable of harming public schools. This chapter reports the impact of reduced class size on student achievement and on classroom events during the first two years of the SAGE program.
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Margaret C. Wang and Jeremy D. Finn, ed. In basing so much of his education policy proposal on increased standardized testing, President Bush ignores evidence that relying on more testing degrades the curriculum and particularly harms the poor, immigrants, and people of color. An examination of his data suggests that the evidence is not clear, that the reported findings may be due to faulty analytical methods, and that if improvements are verified, the role of other potential causes for increases in test scores must also be examined. The report of the statewideUrban Initiative Task Force. It provides the basis for the legislattion founding the SAGE program.