Daily Archive for June 8th, 2009

US ED Secy Duncan: Effectiveness data should drive reforms

Published on 8 June 2009 in Administration, Assessment, Musings, News, Policy, Research, Technology and The press. 2 Comments

Speaking to researchers attending a conference sponsored by the US Department of Education’s Institute for Education Sciences, US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said that educational reforms should be be predicated on research about effectiveness.

“Education reform is not about sweeping mandates or grand gestures,” Duncan told the group of researchers who conduct research for IES, which is an independent section of the Education Department. “It’s about systematically examining and learning, building on what we’ve done right, and scrapping what hasn’t worked for kids.”

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Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy

Published on 8 June 2009 in Administration, News, Policy, Research and The press. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

The Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy has launched a new Web site. The Coalition is another of the several organizations that advocates employing evidence in making decisions about social policies, especially decisions about programs aimed at improving citizens’ outcomes.

The Coalition is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, whose mission is to increase government effectiveness through rigorous evidence about “what works.” Since our founding in 2001, our work with key Congressional and Executive Branch policymakers has helped advance important evidence-based reforms…. A recent independent assessment of our work found that the Coalition has been “instrumental in transforming a theoretical advocacy of evidence-based policy among certain [federal] agencies into an operational reality.”

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