The research core of economic education

National attention continues to focus on education as a result of the wave of national reports calling for change that has swept across the United States during the last four years. Nation Prepared (1986), issued by the Carnegie Corporation, calls upon the nation to rebuild its entire educational system . .. to match the drastic change needed in our economy if we are to prepare our children for productive lives in the 21st century (p. 44). Beyond the rhetoric, the reports exhibit a keen awareness that glittering generalities about reform need to be replaced by action. Action in this round of educational reform, however, requires a different foundation, one based solidly in research on teaching and learning. A start has been made in building a researchbased foundation for educational reform. In the last