Bunkum Awards 2006
At a time when America’s education policymakers have nominally embraced the idea of tying school reform to "scientifically-based research," many of the nation’s most influential reports are little more than junk science. A hodgepodge of private "think tanks" at both the state and national levels wield significant and often undeserved influence in policy discussions by cranking out an array of well-funded, slickly produced, ideologically-driven research. The Bunkum Awards were created to shine a bright light each year on a selection of examples of the worst of the worst think tank “junk science” in the hope that perhaps satire can succeed in changing this chronic misbehavior where reason, logic, and evidence have failed.