To define the issues that policy makers, researchers, and practitioners face independently in their attempt to improve education. As representatives of three different domains, the panel members, with the help of the moderator will highlight the issues, constraints, and potential of their domains, and begin exploring strategies for aligning the scientific, political and educational discourse so that educational policy better reflects a balance between what is possible and what is realistic. Specifically The panel will address, as an example, the role (and emergence) of standards and how communities can build more fruitful relationships between research, practice and policy-making such that educational policies such as standards are (and are perceived as) relevant, realistic, and attainable. Ultimately the panel and moderator will explore the potentially dynamic relationship between each of their perspectives so that other members from the three domains are empowered to act with the knowledge of the constraints and potential that each perspective faces.
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