The road to quality use of evidence in schools

Schools value research more than they actually use it. In its raw form, after all, it can be notoriously abstruse. Not only are scholarly papers replete with hard-to-penetrate jargon, but often the research base is hard to access, and abuzz with competing ideas and theories. Working out what quality evidence looks like is the first challenge; working out how to use it for the betterment of students is a far greater one.