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Legislative Staff and Education Research
by
deanmillot@mac.com
on Fri 13 Apr 2007 12:27 PM EDT | Permanent Link
| Cosmos
Commenting
on their participation in the American Educational Research
Association's annual conference, education policy bloggers are getting
the responsibility for undertanding education research backwards.
Basically they want the research community to make the lives of
legislative aides easier, or they think education research will remain
irrelevant to legislation. What they don't understand is that
research is becoming important to the powerful interests with a stake in
education policy, and it is the job of legislative staff to make
sense of what's important to their legislators. It is the
staff who will be forced to learn an unfamiliar language.
Your editor thinks legislative staffers in education masy be just a bit too
comfortable in their roles as information gatekeepers. Like
education writers, the legislative staff in k-12 education hasn't paid much
attention to education research because until recently it really hasn't
mattered much to education legislation. Yes, legislators wave studies by
Eric Hanushek as evidence of the need for vouchers or by Linda
Darling-Hammond as a reason every teacher has to be certified. But they
are not waving the studies because they understand their validity or
weaknesses - indeed the less they know, the better; they are waiving
the studies because they happen to support legislators' pre-existing policy
preferences.
"Science" has been largely irrelevant to the work of Capitol Hill's
education committees. But Alexander Russo goes a bit too far if
he is suggesting the same holds true for Congress as an
institution. Any observer of C-SPAN can see the keen interest of
Senators and Congressmen in the complex techical questions surrounding
stem cell research, ballistic missile defense, global warming,
contamination of spinach and dog food, VIOXX, auto emmissions, etc.
etc. It is no great feat of deductive readsoning to conclude that
staffers on those committes and for those legislators understand it is
their responsibility to understand the technical issues.
The days when an education committee staff member could dismiss a
complex study about student performance or what constitutes an
effective educational program because they didn't have time to read it
or it made their eyes glaze over are numbered. If you believe No Child
Left Behind will be reauthorized in any form, you must understand that
school systems will be driven by calculations of Adequate Yearly
Progress and the sales of educational products and services by what
constitututes Scientifically Based Research. These are technical
questions and, looking to the future, staff will either learn to decifer them or be replaced by those with the appropriate skill
sets.
"As ye sow, so shall ye reap." Over the last two decades state and federal legislators - with the help of their
legislative aides - have been trying to turn k-12 education policy into an
exercise in "data driven decision making." That are succeeding. So the typical education number
cruncher can keep right on doing what she is doing and expect only to
become more relevant to policy. The typical legislative staffer
specializing in k-12 education is the one who needs to make some
changes before his comfort zone becomes that cave mentioned below.
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On Capitol Hill “Academics often are
not even let into the building. And even if they come in as Fellows,
they are treated as incompetent and slow-moving interns.” Alexander
Russo of This Week in Education drew on his experience as a former
Capitol Hill aide to offer advice for getting more education research
into public policy.
At this morning’s AERA session “From
Research to Policy to Practice,” Russo urged researchers to acknowledge
the clash between their culture of methodical long-term projects and
that of harried legislative staff. He likened Hill staffers to
hummingbirds: They’re “fluttery, fast, anxious, all over the place.” To
get their attention you have to give them something relevant to pending
legislation.
If researchers want to improve
education policy they have to keep up with what is happening in the
policy world, he said. “Come out of your cave and get up to speed on
what policy people are doing.”....
If you’re not satisfied with the
influence your research has, then study and imitate the strategies of
media influentials, even if you may not agree with their point of
view.... “Think about the successes of the handful of academics
who have broken through,” he said. “How have Diane Ravitch, Eric
Hanushek, Linda Darling-Hammonds, and Gary Orfield managed to get their
work into the public arena? Steal their strategies.”
Paul Baker, EducationPR, April 12.
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