Center will grade education reform
The Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Clive McFarlane
October 2, 2002
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The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth, known as MassINC, a nonpartisan agency whose goal is to promote the growth and vitality of the middle class, yesterday named Mr. Reville the director of its newly-created Center for Education and Research Policy.
Citing Massachusetts' penchant for launching ambitious and expensive educational initiatives without setting up a way to measure the success of those programs, MassINC executive director Tripp Jones said the new research center will ''serve as a resource to help the state think strategically about where we are headed.''
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The [Education Reform Review] commission was not funded this year because of the state's budget problems, Mr. Reville said. ''We have invested billions of dollars in education reform and spend next to nothing to measure how effective those investments have worked,'' he said.
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''Policy-makers are called upon to make decisions with no evidence on which to make those decisions.''
In addition to monitoring the state's education reform initiatives, the research center will look at ''all kind of strategies'' to improve education, Mr. Reville said.
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