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The Triumph of Hope Over Experience in the Search for "What Works": A Response to Slavin

The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, and University Professor, University of Toronto, HDAP, OISE/UT, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1V6 dolson{at}oise.utoronto.caHe is author of The World on Paper(Cambridge University Press, 1994) and editor, with Nancy Torrance, of The Handbook of Education and Human Development(Blackwell, 1996). His most recent book, Psychological Theory and Educational Reform: How School Remakes Mind and Society(Cambridge University Press), was just published. He is a Foreign Fellow of the National Academy of Education

Slavin’s call for evidence-based research on the effectiveness of treatments is criticized for its unreflective concept of a "treatment." It is argued that treatments cannot be defined objectively but only relative to the beliefs, goals, and intentions of those supposedly affected by the treatments. An alternative approach to the study of schooling in terms of the entitlements and obligations of those involved at all levels of the system is suggested.

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