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Use of Research Evidence

Awarded Grants

Grant

What’s Not the Matter with Kansas? Lessons from Kansas for the Future of State School Finance Reform

What insights can Kansas offer about using research evidence to inform school finance reform?
Bruce Baker
Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey
2019 – 2019
$35,000
Grant

Active Surveillance of Policy Ecosystems and Networks to Enhance Brokering of Research Evidence into State Policymaking

Can a knowledge brokering intervention improve the use of research evidence in state policymaking?
Itzhak Yanovitzky
Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey
2019 – 2023
$955,012

Articles & More

Digest, Issue 5: Winter 2019-20

No Small Matters: Reimagining the Use of Research Evidence From A Racial Justice Perspective

We can no more afford methodologically rich research studies that lack racial consciousness than we can afford racially conscious studies that lack methodological rigor.
David Kirkland
No Small Matters: Reimagining the Use of Research Evidence From A Racial Justice Perspective
Digest, Issue 5: Winter 2019-20

Centering the Margins: (Re)defining Useful Research Evidence Through Critical Perspectives

Improving the use of research evidence will require ensuring usefulness—and use—toward ends that are congruent with the goals and visions that marginalized communities have for their self-determined benefits.
Fabienne Doucet
Centering the Margins: (Re)defining Useful Research Evidence Through Critical Perspectives
Publication

Building Consensus: Idea Brokerage in Teacher Policy Networks

Abstract We show how policy makers converged to support similar reforms on a major educational issue: teacher effectiveness. Our study demonstrates the importance of idea brokers—actors that facilitate connections between preferences in policy networks and promote consensus around new ...
Sara Galey-Horn
,
Sarah Reckhow
,
Joseph A. Ferrare
,
and Lorien Jasney
Building Consensus: Idea Brokerage in Teacher Policy Networks
News
  •  Nov 13, 2019

Vivian Tseng on “No Jargon” Podcast, Episode 197: Making Research Matter

Vivian Tseng joins the Scholars Strategy Network No Jargon podcast to talk about how research has traditionally been used to shape education policy in the U.S. and how more recent approaches may pave the way toward “making research matter.”
Foundation Staff
Vivian Tseng on “No Jargon” Podcast, Episode 197: Making Research Matter
Blog Post

Forming and sustaining a research-practice partnership: Lessons from our experience at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Many research-practice partnerships begin when two initially unaffiliated partner organizations decide to pursue collaborative work. Having formed a partnership between our respective offices within a federal agency, our experience is ...
Lauren Supplee
,
Charisse Johnson
,
Seth Chamberlain
,
and Samantha Illangasekare
Forming and sustaining a research-practice partnership: Lessons from our experience at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
News
  •  Sep 19, 2019

Five New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas

We are proud to announce four new grants to support research on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and one new grant to support research on improving the use of research evidence. Approved at the Foundation’s summer board meeting, these ...
Five New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas
Publication

“Using Evidence in the U.S.” from What Works Now

In this chapter from What Works Now: Evidence-informed Policy and Practice, Vivian Tseng and Cynthia Coburn delineate the evolution of evidence use in the United States, specifically the ways that research evidence has been used in public education. From the ...
Vivian Tseng
 and Cynthia Coburn
“Using Evidence in the U.S.” from What Works Now
Blog Post

Vivian’s Voice: Evidence use across sectors, around the globe, and back at home

I share my reflections on the past decade of work in this area, as well as my current thinking, with the hope that we, along with fellow travelers on a similar journey, can find ways to forge a more productive ...
Vivian Tseng
Vivian’s Voice: Evidence use across sectors, around the globe, and back at home

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