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5 Generating Continuous Improvement Cycles Through Research and Development
Pages 39-42

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... "It makes life a lot easier. It's the great discovery of the invisible hand." Asking convocation participants to use their cell phones to take an informal survey, Donovan asked them to identify whether they have ever been a K-12 teacher and then to answer the question: "To achieve a highfunctioning K-12 education system, what portion of the challenge can be addressed through policies that address incentives and accountability?
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... She explained this conclusion led to a third publication, How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom (National Research Council, 2005) , which incorporated topics from history, mathematics, and science into a representative elementary school-level, middle school-level, and high school-level classroom.
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... argued that a new kind of organization was needed to move the research enterprise into school settings, with problems taken not from theory but from practice. The result was the creation of the independent nonprofit Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP)
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... Donavan responded that SERP has not worked on that problem yet, but it is an important problem that probably will receive attention in the future. Rebecca Sansom, a 2013­ 2014 Einstein fellow, raised the point that – whenever teachers try something new, they are not going to do that new thing as well as they did an older thing, even if the newer approach will ultimately be more effective than the older approach.
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