Improving Student Learning responds by proposing an ambitious and extraordinary plan: a strategic education research program that would focus on four key questions:
-- How can advances in research on learning be incorporated into educational practice?
-- How can student engagement in learning be increased?
-- How can schools become organizations of continuous improvement?
-- How can the use of research knowledge be increased in schools?

This book is the springboard for a year-long discussion among educators, researchers, policymakers, and the potential funders-federal, state, and private -- of the proposed a strategic education research program. The committee offers suggestions for designing, organizing, and managing an effective strategic education research program by building a structure of interrelated networks.