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Building Bridges: How Collaborative State and Regional Innovation Hubs Can Reshape Education R&D
The traditional landscape of education innovation often feels siloed. Researchers conduct studies, edtech startups build tools, investors inject capital, and educators are left at the tail end, hoping something works for their students. This incoherent marketplace, where solutions often lack substantial evidence of their effectiveness and are built without a deep…
Can Regional Innovation Hubs Create a More Promising Future for K-12 Education?
Recommended Condition/Infrastructure Participant Notes Condition: Establish a state vision and goals that prioritize innovation and continuous improvement. “If you don’t know where you’re going, you won’t get there.” Condition: Establish a dedicated office to oversee and drive state education R&D. “There are different models. This could be one, but there…
Why Education R&D Should Be On Trump’s Agenda
As President-elect Trump and his team prepare for the first 100 days of office, they are setting their policy agenda and striving to make good on their campaign promises. In education, that will include decreasing the federal role (if not eliminating the U.S. Department of Education altogether), expanding school choice,…
How the NEED Act Would Improve Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems
Last week, Sara wrote about the introduction of the New Essential Education Discoveries (NEED) Act in the U.S. Senate and how it would establish a National Center for Advanced Development in Education (NCADE). This week, Sara is joined by Kate Tromble, Vice President, Federal Policy at the Data Quality Campaign (DQC)…
To Transform Education Through R&D, the NEED Act is the Best, First Step
Solving big, systemic problems often requires big, out-of-the-box thinking. This is true in education where issues like stagnant achievement and chronic absenteeism seem intractable at the district level. A new op-ed in The 74 makes a compelling case for why it’s time for Congress to champion an effort to improve, modernize…
The NEED Act Introduced in the Senate
On July 30, Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced the bipartisan New Essential Education Discoveries (NEED) Act in the Senate (S. 4841). This is the companion to the House bill (H.R. 6691) introduced last December by Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA). The Senate introduction of the…
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