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Education is missing the equivalent of teaching hospitals in medicine--that is, places where researchers, teachers, and designers collaborate in practice settings to observe, explain, document, replicate, and evaluate practice as a source of new knowledge This led to the proposal that a small number of US school districts be established as special \'field sites\' that would readily allow problems to be defined and solutions tested in real-world classrooms In 2004, a small, independent nongovernmental organization, called the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP), was spun out of the Academies to test this idea The Boston Public Schools system served as the first SERP field site, with adolescent literacy chosen by its superintendent, Tom Payzant, as the focus Since that time, SERP\'s work has extended into additional areas, including mathematics and science But progress has been slowed by the need to change two cultures: that of school districts, which are often driven by short-term needs that make long-term research efforts difficult to sustain, and that of research universities, whose efforts to improve K-12 education, if they exist, are driven by grants to individual faculty members that make the whole no more than the sum of its parts
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If we are to provide clean energy and solve climate change, create jobs, prevent future pandemics, and assure national security, much of the solution will be based on scientific research Norman R Augustine Retired Chair and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corp Former Under Secretary of the US Army CONGRESSIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT I applaud the recent attempt to expand Congress\'s capacity to better anticipate and assess both the intended and unintended consequences of technological advance, as Timothy Persons describes in \'The Return of Science and Technology Assessment to Congress\' (Issues, Fall 2020) [ ]is the time to give serious thought to setting up a global TA Commons to focus specifically on TA issues that are inherently supranational-future pandemics, for sure, but also issues such as global bio- and cybersecurity, the regulation of space, undersea mining, weapons proliferation, or human intrusions into global anthropogenic systems (such as the carbon or nitrogen cycles) through geoengineering IIASA could, in fact, provide a good home for such an effort given its focus on global systems challenges, but a range of options should be explored, including expanding the global TA efforts coordinated by the German Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology
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