Comments on: Powerful Professors http://educationnext.org/powerful-professors/ Education Next is a journal of opinion and research about education policy. Fri, 25 May 2012 01:51:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Marci Kanstoroom http://educationnext.org/powerful-professors/comment-page-1/#comment-166 Marci Kanstoroom Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:39:40 +0000 http://content.hks.harvard.edu/educationnext/?p=49626437#comment-166 Jay Mathews of the Washington Post wrote something on his blog in response to this article. You can find it here: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/class-struggle/2009/09/egad_school.html?wprss=rss_blog Jay Mathews of the Washington Post wrote something on his blog in response to this article. You can find it here: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/class-struggle/2009/09/egad_school.html?wprss=rss_blog

]]> By: Paul DiPerna http://educationnext.org/powerful-professors/comment-page-1/#comment-161 Paul DiPerna Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:28:13 +0000 http://content.hks.harvard.edu/educationnext/?p=49626437#comment-161 Paul, I enjoyed your Menino-Kane example to illustrate the point. Great post. I have a couple tangential question for you and/or anyone else willing to share their perspectives. How important are the messenger (Tom Kane in the example..), the news media (Globe, other MA news outlets), and information gatekeeper (Menino's Chief of Staff?) by which a research message travels and impresses. Seems to me there's an essential interaction between messenger, research message, news media, and information gatekeeper just to allow a research finding the chance to have public impact. I don't know if the strength of any one condition, on its own, can set a political agenda or impact the policy process. From what I've seen firsthand, it's a pretty complex interaction. - Paul D Paul,

I enjoyed your Menino-Kane example to illustrate the point. Great post.

I have a couple tangential question for you and/or anyone else willing to share their perspectives.

How important are the messenger (Tom Kane in the example..), the news media (Globe, other MA news outlets), and information gatekeeper (Menino’s Chief of Staff?) by which a research message travels and impresses.

Seems to me there’s an essential interaction between messenger, research message, news media, and information gatekeeper just to allow a research finding the chance to have public impact.

I don’t know if the strength of any one condition, on its own, can set a political agenda or impact the policy process. From what I’ve seen firsthand, it’s a pretty complex interaction.

– Paul D

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