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Digest, Issue 06: Winter 2020-21

Forging Connections: Grantee Experiences Reaching Audiences Beyond the Academic World

After five years of supporting research on reducing inequality, we’re proud of the body of work that grantees are producing and we’re inspired by their efforts to inform thought and action beyond the university gates.
Lenore Neier
Forging Connections: Grantee Experiences Reaching Audiences Beyond the Academic World
Digest, Issue 06: Winter 2020-21

Can Policy Interventions Reduce Inequality? Looking Beyond Test Scores for Evidence

Learning how particular government policies affect families requires well-designed and well-coordinated mixed-methods research that pays attention to a variety of indicators of success.
Richard Murnane
Can Policy Interventions Reduce Inequality? Looking Beyond Test Scores for Evidence
Digest, Issue 06: Winter 2020-21

Identifying and Testing Strategies to Improve the Use of Antiracist Research Evidence through Critical Race Lenses

Encouraging the use of evidence from antiracist research requires thinking differently about what is relevant, how antiracist perspectives are built into routines for using research, and what it means to ...
Fabienne Doucet
Identifying and Testing Strategies to Improve the Use of Antiracist Research Evidence through Critical Race Lenses
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Building Trust in Science Will Require Democratizing Evidence

In a new post published by The Hill, Vivian Tseng outlines how incorporating democratic principles will be key to building trust in science in the coming years, writing: “Democratizing evidence would foster an informed citizenry, in which those furthest from ...
Foundation Staff
Building Trust in Science Will Require Democratizing Evidence
Digest, Issue 05: Winter 2019-20

The Long Shadow: Considering How Racism Shapes Justice System Inequality and Efforts to Disrupt it

What is needed is not a one-off intervention, but an informed understanding of how racism makes its way into encounters between youth and police and a commitment to addressing the ...
Nikki Jones
The Long Shadow: Considering How Racism Shapes Justice System Inequality and Efforts to Disrupt it
Digest, Issue 05: 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 05: Winter 2019-20

Shifting the Lens: Why Conceptualization Matters in Research on Reducing Inequality

To begin shifting the underlying structures of inequality, scholars can harness the power of rigorous research to produce innovative, ground-breaking research that might further upend the narratives that inequality is inevitable or explained by individual differences.
Jenny Irons
Shifting the Lens: Why Conceptualization Matters in Research on Reducing Inequality
Digest, Issue 05: 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
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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
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“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

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