Often such problems are a result of timing—it takes years to collect evidence, and policy makers need to make decisions quickly about which policies are succeeding, which require adjustment, and which should be phased out. This is all the more reason to have few priorities, invest strategically and parsimoniously in research and evaluation, and carefully assess interim trends. The Steering Group did not hear much about either data driven or research-based decision making, although there are a substantial number of evaluations going on. The new Centre for Education Research within the Norwegian Research Council should address this issue.