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The first paragraph in the perky press release put out recently by the University of Colorado-Boulder read as follows:

“The Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education has awarded nearly $5 million to the University of Colorado Boulder, the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University and Northwestern University to create a new center that will study how educational leaders—including school district supervisors and principals—use research when making decisions and what can be done to make research findings more useful and relevant for those leaders.”

But all I could read was this: bureaucrats give $5 million in hard-earned taxpayer money to research … research. This on top of the hard-earned taxpayer money that funds the research to begin with. All to find out whether people even give two hoots about the research, anyway.

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