The research question that wasn’t asked
Recent discussions of the Vanderbilt University study on the effect of merit pay in Nashville raised a common and important issue pertaining to education policy research – or any research for that matter – What about the question that wasn’t asked? Or how important really is the question that was asked?
In the case of the Vanderbilt merit pay study, the researchers essentially asked whether providing sizable financial bonuses to randomly selected teachers could motivate those teachers to try harder and ultimately
Oct 8, 2010 (14 hours ago)
Video Blog: School Finance & The Courts
This week, Bruce Baker from Rutgers University discusses his paper co-authored with Kevin Welner regarding research on school finance reform litigation. For more video, visit
