Unlocking for the Profession A Wealth of Educational Research
Abstract
With the ResearchersUnlocking for the Profession A Wealth of Educational Research SAGE Publications, Inc.1960DOI: 10.1177/002248716001100422 David G. Ryans Douglas E. Scates University of Florida, Gainesville I N presenting the new 1960 edition of the Encyclopedia of Educational Researchl to the sponsoring organization, the American Educational Research Association, at its meeting in Atlantic City last February, J. Cayce Morrison, three times chairman of the board of editors noted: It is another milestone in the progress of educational research. It conveys the vision and vitality of a new generation of workers. Lee C. Deighton, vice-president of the Macmillan Company, speaking for the publisher, commented: This is an age of exploding knowledge. Communication is our problem. The Encyclopedia is a forthright confrontal of this problem. It lends distinction to the name Macmillan. He then presented an exquisitely bound copy of the work to the person most directly responsible for this completely new edition, the Encyclopedia's editor, Chester W. Harris, of the University of Wisconsin. Behind this simple exchange of courtesies lay uncounted hours of volunteer work by professional persons, all experts in their respective fields of specialization and in their understanding of research. Behind the immediate summarizing work of the 200