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An account of the search over the past 100 years or so, to try and discover how educational research might provide reliable prescriptions for the improvement of education.

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"[C]andid and incisive.... A stark yet enlightening look at American education." - Library Journal; "[A]n account of the search, over the past hundred or so years, to try and discover how educational research might provide reliable prescriptions for the improvement of education. Through extensive use of contemporary reference material, [Lagemann] shows that the search for ways of producing high-quality research has been, in effect, a search for secure disciplinary foundations." - Dylan William, Times Higher Education Supplement

An Elusive Science The Troubling History of

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/05/2002
      ISBN13: 9780226467733, 978-0226467733
      ISBN10: 0226467732
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An account of the search over the past 100 years or so, to try and discover how educational research might provide reliable prescriptions for the improvement of education.

      Trade Review
      "[C]andid and incisive.... A stark yet enlightening look at American education." - Library Journal; "[A]n account of the search, over the past hundred or so years, to try and discover how educational research might provide reliable prescriptions for the improvement of education. Through extensive use of contemporary reference material, [Lagemann] shows that the search for ways of producing high-quality research has been, in effect, a search for secure disciplinary foundations." - Dylan William, Times Higher Education Supplement

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