Evidence and Policy: If You Want to Make a Silk Purse,
Why Not Start With Silk?
Robert E. Slavin
Everyone knows that you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. This proverb goes back to the 1500s. Yet in education policy, we are constantly trying to achieve stellar results using school and classroom programs of unknown effectiveness, or even those known to be ineffective, even though proven effective programs are readily available.
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