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What Nursing Can Teach Schools About Innovative Staffing
Our recent paper, Investing in Educators, compared teacher and nurse union contracts on pay bonuses for hard-to-staff jobs. Nursing and teaching are both professional fields, yet nursing pays substantial, reliable money to fill hard-to-staff shifts and specialties. Despite research documenting the effectiveness of differential pay in high-poverty schools and in…
Bipartisan Momentum for Education R&D in Congress
This summer, we’ve been closely tracking multiple bills introduced in the Senate aimed at advancing data and evidence in education. This is a promising moment of bipartisan alignment on an issue central to ALI’s work: whether the federal government has the infrastructure to find out what works in education and…
Inclusive R&D in Action: Bridging Learner Variability Research and Educator Practice with AI
Learner Variability (LV) is the understanding that every learner has a unique learning profile of strengths and challenges. Research shows that personalized learning rooted in this understanding has a greater chance of success, but designing instruction that addresses LV through whole-child development remains a persistent challenge for busy educators managing…
Research Round-up: Where the Career-Connected Learning Evidence Base Is Heading
Two weeks ago, ALI joined thousands of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in Washington, DC, for the JFF Horizons Summit. It was energizing to see so many people focused on career-connected learning (CCL), the range of programs and practices, from career exploration to work-based learning to industry credentials, that connect what…
Seeing Who Learners Can Become: A Blueprint for Education R&D That Starts with Students
The CAPS Network is a national nonprofit that partners with schools, educators, employers, and communities to help students discover who they are and where they belong through profession-based learning. Across more than 140 affiliate communities, students engage in authentic projects alongside industry professionals while educators continuously learn from one another…
How a Little-Known Procurement Tool Could Modernize IES
SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril — these companies are defining a new era of defense contracting. These so-called “neoprimes” disrupted a calcified defense industry by bringing software expertise, speed, and a startup ethos to a field long dominated by slow-moving giants like Boeing and Lockheed Martin. But their rise wasn’t just a…
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