“Classroom Research and Cargo Cults”, E. D. Hirsch Junior2002-10 (spaced repetition, sociology)⁠:

[Hirsch outlines some fundamental reasons why educational research has not provided dependable guidance for policy and suggests how to repair what it lacks.

In the end, both naturalistic research and laboratory research in education have a duty to accompany their findings with plausible accounts of their actual implications for policy—as regards both the relative cost of the policy in money and time and the relative gain that may be expected from it in comparison with rival policies.]