Meeting Our Standards for Educational Justice: Doing Our Best with the Evidence

Joyce, K.E.; Cartwright, N.

doi:10.1177/1477878518756565

Meeting Our Standards for Educational Justice: Doing Our Best with the Evidence

Joyce, K.E.; Cartwright, N.

Authors

K.E. Joyce

Professor Nancy Cartwright nancy.cartwright@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

The United States considers educating all students to a threshold of adequate outcomes to be a central goal of educational justice. The No Child Left Behind Act introduced evidence-based policy and accountability protocols to ensure that all students receive an education that enables them to meet adequacy standards. Unfortunately, evidence-based policy has been less effective than expected. This article pinpoints under-examined methodological problems and suggests a more effective way to incorporate educational research findings into local evidence-based policy decisions. It identifies some things educators need to know and do to determine whether available interventions can play the right casual role in their setting to produce desired effects. It examines the value and limits of educational research, especially randomized controlled trials, for this task.

Citation

Joyce, K., & Cartwright, N. (2018). Meeting Our Standards for Educational Justice: Doing Our Best with the Evidence. Theory and Research in Education, 16(1), 3-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477878518756565

Journal Article Type	Article
Online Publication Date	Feb 23, 2018
Publication Date	Mar 1, 2018
Deposit Date	Jan 15, 2018
Publicly Available Date	Feb 9, 2018
Journal	Theory and Research in Education
Print ISSN	1477-8785
Electronic ISSN	1741-3192
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	16
Issue	1
Pages	3-22
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1177/1477878518756565

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Cartwright, N. & Joyce, K. (2018). Meeting Our Standards for Educational Justice: Doing Our Best with the Evidence. Theory and Research in Education. Copyright © The Author(s) 2018. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.