The Bush administration has systematically suppressed and distorted scientific findings to conform to its ideological agenda. Unfortunately, this practice has carried into educational research and evaluation, including the Institute of Education Sciences' What Works Clearing Clearinghouse, a unit that purports to screen studies that are "scientific."
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