The question is not whether evidence-based policy can eradicate failure but how evidence can better inform policy in order to increase success. ... Ultimately what works is a question of values not facts (Parsons 2001: p104). ... The question therefore becomes, not whether adherence to evidence-based policy making can eradicate failure, but whether evidence-informed policy can increase success. 3. ... The rhetoric is cheap and easy" (2000: p13). ... Indeed the term has an air of deja-vu as long-standing debates about knowledge versus power, politics versus logic, and technocracy versus ...

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Although some questions about methodological weaknesses have arisen, results suggest that, in general, teacher-education programs do not provide adequate experiences to prepare preservice teachers to use technology in their classrooms. ...

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