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Brokering the Research-Practice Gap: A Typology
Despite widespread recognition of a research–practice gap in multiple service sectors, less is known about how pre-existing communication channels facilitate the flow of information between researchers and practitioners. In the current study, we applied an existing typology of brokerage developed by Gould and Fernandez to examine what types of brokerage facilitate information spread between researchers and educational practitioners.
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Politics of Education Association Special Issue: The Politics of Research Utilization
Edited by Lubienski, Scott, and DeBray, this special issue of Educational Policy includes nine essays on topics related to research use in education, including the roles of district leaders and intermediary groups, school choice, research and diversity policy, and more.
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Building the Infrastructure to Improve the Use and Usefulness of Research in Education
Vivian Tseng and Sandra Nutley point the way forward for education researchers and policymakers, summarizing the key points made throughout Using Research Evidence in Education and concluding: “Research is not the next silver bullet for education reform, and simply mandating its use will not get us to our ultimate goals of better teaching and learning. … If we are committed to using research to enrich problem framing, decision making, and individual and organization learning in education, the next decade should focus on building trust, capacity, strong relationships, and the conditions for productive evidence integration.”
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Using Research Evidence in Education: From the Schoolhouse Door to Capitol Hill
Published by Spring and edited by Finnigan and Daly, this volume contains 12 chapters that examine how evidence is acquired and used at different levels of the education system.
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The Big Why: A Learning Agenda for the Scale-Up Movement
Policymakers and practitioners who believe that research evidence should inform policy and practice face several challenges. These include debates about the standards of evidence for allocating resources to programs, weak information on how to produce change at scale, and concerns that a few, well-evaluated programs will drive out others that deserve support.
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The Research Says: Definitions and Uses of a Key Policy Term in Federal Lay and Local School-Board Deliberations
"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) with the meanings and uses of research in school-‐board deliberations in three local districts in Wisconsin. While NCLB articulates a narrow view of research and a hierarchy of methods, the school boards operated with an expansive meaning of research and combined its use with other evidence types. Appreciating the role that values play in crafting public policy, these local debates balanced technical and public modes of reasoning."
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Evidence Use and the Common Core State Standards Movement: From Problem Definition to Policy Adoption
"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 (CCSS) initiative, examining how research use varied over stages of the process and how it was integrated with other types of evidence. By drawing on elite interviews, we find that CCSS promoters and developers used evidence in much the way that policy analysis research would predict and that while research evidence was a major resource, it was combined with other types of evidence depending on political and policy goals at different stages of the CCSS process."
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How State Agencies Acquire and Use Research in School Improvement Strategies
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 knowledge to design, implement, and refine state school improvement policies, programs and practices; and, 3) how state education agencies are organized to manage and use such knowledge."
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Partnership and the Politics of Care: Advocates’ Role in Passing and Implementing California’s Law to Extend Foster Care
"This report traces the history of [California’s Fostering Connections to Success Act] from when it was first introduced in the California State Assembly, through its passage and signing, and ultimately to its innovative and extensive implementation planning process. Thus, it covers the period of time from December 2008 through December 2011. The aim of this report is to document the California experience, highlighting its successes and challenges, so that other states may benefit, potentially smoothing the legislative and implementation processes there."
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