I've been surfing the education blogs of late, and Jenny D. points to this eye-glazing featured article ! ! ! in the Columbia University Teachers College Record. Here is the listing from the table of contents:

Movements of Mind: The Matrix, Metaphors, and Re-imagining Education Alison Cook-Sather | 2004

This article uses the popular move The Matrix to evoke both metaphors for human existence and models for teaching and learning, it examines two metaphors that have dominated notions of and approaches to education in the United States, and it argues for seeking, crafting, and embracing metaphors that cast students as the principle creators of their education and themselves.

This article is the centerpiece of the journal. This article is considered an advancement of either the science, or the craft, of education. If this is the pinnacle of education research, then I should point some high school students of my acquaintance, who are looking to pad their resumes, towards the editors of this journal. Nothing like having a professional journal article to your credit when applying to college.