Evidence on Teaching – Ben Goldacre
The author of Bad Science, a book which debunks lots of pseudoscience, presents a paper supporting the idea of Education Policy being driven by methods that have been scientifically demonstrated to work well, rather than the hit-and-miss political approach we currently ‘enjoy’:
Article: Teachers! What would evidence based practice look like?
The idea of using evidence-based policy is presented rather convincingly in The Geek Manifesto.