Psychology & Education: Toward New Research/Policy Syntheses

为了找出为什么美国的教育不能满足许多儿童的潜力和许多社会需求，人们进行了不懈的努力，结果发现了回答这个问题所需的许多因素，其中一些已经成功地实施了。然而，工作必须继续确定拼图的剩余部分，特别是如何将这些部分组合成一个连贯的整体。要想取得成功，就需要在距离教育应用程序不同的学者之间建立概念和结构上的桥梁。NSF的战略计划草案在“理念”的标题下包括以下长期成果：*将发现与创新、学习和社会进步联系起来的伙伴关系。*协同结合的研究和教育过程。在此提出的WPA和APA专题讨论会应该为实现这些目标做出有意义的贡献，因为它汇集了来自不同心理学领域（进化、社会、认知、跨文化）和教育研究与政策的杰出学者，促进了关于如何改进教育研究和政策的讨论，促进了关于如何通过有效地整合研究和政策来改进教育的讨论。

As a result of the persistent attempt to find out why American education is failing to fulfill many children's potential and many societal needs, many of the elements needed to answer the question have been identified and some of those have been successfully implemented. However, work must continue on identifying remaining pieces of the puzzle and, especially, on how to assemble the pieces into a coherent whole. Succeeding will require the construction of conceptual and structual bridges between scholars working at different distances from educational applications.NSF's draft stategic plan includes the following long term outcomes, under the heading of "Ideas":* Partnerships connecting discovery to innovation, learning, and societal advancement.* Research and education processes that are synergistically coupled.The WPA and APA symposia proposed herein should contribute meaningfully to achieving those ends buy bringing together distinguished scholars with expertise in diverse areas of psychology (evolutionary, social, cognitive, cross-cutural) and education research and policy, to stimulate discussion about how to improve education research and policy, to stimulate discussion about how to improve education by effectively integrating research and policy.