Anyone intimately familiar with U.S. education research of the past half century recognizes its marked difference from that of other fields. Some attribute the difference to an inferiority of methods, implying that education professors are not quite as bright as, say, economists. I would argue, instead, that bias is, by far, a greater problem—that bias is fueled by both progressive education ideology and professional self-interest.
On April 24, with the assistance of the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the country’s most elite education researchers in the National Academy of Education(NAEd) sued the U.S. Department of Education (ED).
