After decades of frustration that education research is irrelevant to practice and that educators do not use research to inform their work, there is reason to believe that the relationship between research and practice is improving. Elizabeth Farley-Ripple describes the how the conversation about research and practice is becoming broader, how stakeholders on all sides are becoming more aware of complexities, how brokers are helping researchers and practitioners connect with each other, and how researchers are making practitioners a more integral part of their work.
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