ABSTRACT
Seven years ago, while I was Chairman of the Research Advisory Council of the Office of Education, the appropriation voted for educational research and development was markedly below the authorization and the long-range plan. When I talked with the Secretary of HEW, he told me that there was no important legislative constituency pressing for the appropriation; in fact, the school administrators were saying that the schools were getting no significant help from the expanded research program authorized by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Conversations with several members of Congress corroborated the Secretary's comments. At about the same time, Stephen Bailey sent questionnaires to a sample of school administrators, asking about their uses of the products of educational research and development. Their replies cited very few research findings that they were employing in their schools.
