Dissertation Train Leaving the Station

Just moments ago, I submitted my second certification exam.  It’s a fifty-page review of studies related to my own present and future work.  In it, I ask a series of questions to guide the review:

- Why don’t policymakers read educational research?
- Why don’t researchers write for policymakers?
- What gaps exist because policymakers and researchers don’t read and write for each other?
- What assumptions about reading and writing underlie this gapbetween research and policy?

I’m becoming particularly interested in learning more about policymakers and implementers as readers, non-readers, and re-readers.  Many thanks to Jon Becker who replied to my last post and gave me invaluable direction. 

The next steps include meeting with my adviser for breakfast Friday, discussing the kinds of studies this lit review lends itself to, and beginning preparations on a dissertation proposal for a hearing in the May.  If you have any ideas, leads, or links, please send them along!

** On another note, I’m also beginning now to prepare for a reading of Paradise Lost to my son, Declan.  These tender, but literary, posts will pepper the blog in the months to come. **

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