New Research Agenda Set For Department Of Education

Education Week (11/4, Sparks) reported, "The Institute for Education Sciences this week officially set a new research agenda for the US Department Of Education, as its advisory board approved the first revised priorities in five years." Though the "institute's topics of study won't change much under the new priorities," the "new priorities put greater emphasis on putting federally supported education research findings into context 'to identify education policies, programs, and practices that improve education outcomes, and to determine how, why, for whom, and under what conditions they are effective.'"