How State Agencies Acquire and Use Research in School Improvement Strategies

Published by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 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.”