How do intermediary organizations manage political pressures, value disagreements, differing scientific approaches, and organizational interests as they develop research-based guidelines for practice?
Excerpt from the Introduction “This essay draws on those three initiatives to ofer lessons my colleagues and I have learned about ways to connect research, policy, and practice—and ultimately forge common ground. I also ofer a few cautionary notes ...
Excerpt from the Introduction Pressures are increasing on educational policy and practice to use research to guide improvement. In recent years, federal programs such as No Child Left Behind, Reading ...
Abstract Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the way in which low‐performing schools and their district define, acquire, use, and diffuse research‐based evidence. Design/methodology/...
Abstract Focusing on ‘research’ as a key term in debates over U.S. education policy, this article compares the definition of research in the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) ...
Despite calls for research-based policies, other types of evidence also influence education policy, including personal experience, professional expertise, and normative values. This article focuses on the Common Core State Standards (...
In this essay, Vivian Tseng and William T. Grant Foundation senior program team colleagues describe the Foundation’s interest in generating studies that focus on understanding the use of research evidence in policy and practice affecting youth and how to ...
This brief is based on an exploratory study that examined: “1) where state education agency staff search for research, evidence-based, and practitioner knowledge related to school improvement; 2) whether and how state education agency staff use research and these other types of ...
In this paper, Davies and Nutley provide a primer for those unfamiliar with prior work and conceptual frameworks for understanding the use of research in policy and practice. They critique ...
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