Bridging the divide between education research and education policy can be difficult, but we came one step closer this week when we co-hosted the first Emerging Education Policy Scholars program with the American Enterprise Institute. The program aims to cultivate emerging talent in the education policy sector. As Rick Hess wrote today of the program:
?it was gratifying to see the degree to which important questions around merit pay, collective bargaining, school choice, accountability, and cost-cutting have moved into the mainstream of ed research. Just a decade ago, my interest in such questions marked me as a bizarre outlier in the world of ed schools. Such questions were the province of a limited circle of scholars, many of them dead-set on proving that reforms like school choice or merit pay were bad ideas.
You can read the full blog post on Rick's blog.