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An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research / Edition 1

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An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research / Edition 1
An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research / Edition 1

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An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research / Edition 1

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Since its beginnings at the start of the 20th century, educational scholarship has been a marginal field, criticized by public policy makers and relegated to the fringes of academe. explains why, providing a critical history of the traditions, conflicts, and institutions that have shaped the study of education over the past century. "[C]andid and incisive. . . . A stark yet enlightening look at American education."— "[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,

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