¶ … administration had to conduct research to confirm the research agenda. The research agenda advises assessment of state policy as well as implementation and needed to be robust enough to created informed decisions. While there were a plethora and variety of articles provided, he articles provided in the research were not from recent articles. Some were over 6 years old and they should be a maximum of four years old. Furthermore, the quality of the articles submitted were questionable. For example, some articles came from blogs or websites. They needed to be solely peer-reviewed. Many of the articles were also informative articles and not articles in which researchers conducted studies and performed reviews of other articles for their research topic/area of interest. Best practices come from results collected by researchers performing studies. They put forth a hypothesis and test this hypothesis in order to draw a conclusion.

Informative articles do not do this. They merely provide information about a subject. While informative articles are useful, they are just part of the equation. Research is an essential to policy development and enforcement of guidelines. It is also important for successful implementation of best practices because these strategies are designed from research collected. If the research is based on old data, there may be something missing due to not keeping updated.

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They had to assess the topic, perform a literature review of peer-reviewed articles no later than 2012 and aim for collection of data from articles from 2015 and 2016. That the information offered is up-to-date with recent trends and practices in education. Education, just like healthcare is ever-evolving. It needs constant flow of new and recent information to continue.
For example, a 2014 article by Brown shows studies in comparative education do not include participants with disabilities. "Findings show that a limited number of studies in comparative education have examined students with disabilities, but numbers have increased in recent years. Additionally, two major themes emerged from the literature: (1) social interpretations of disability, and (2) global versus local" (Brown, 2014, p. 56). This is something to acknowledge and look out for when it comes to performing any future studies or incorporating new guidelines. Special education still remains an isolated aspect of school where children going to special education schools feels like they do not belong with other children.

Another good example of why researching recent articles is integral is because recent articles provide information of emerging trends like youth's reliance on internet websites for scholarly information versus textbooks and journals. A 2016 article shows Wikipedia can be a place that serves…