ALI Letter of Support for the NEED Act

The Alliance for Learning Innovation and the Foundation for American Innovation jointly responded to the Department of War’s (DoW) Request for Information on improving domestic top-tier K-12 STEM talent development. The response urges the DoW to build on federally funded programs with demonstrated evidence and to require reporting on outcomes from the start. It also […]

Read ALI's coalition comments urging the Department of Education to ensure proposed EDGAR revisions strengthen, rather than constrain, the nation's capacity to conduct and share rigorous education R&D.

Comment letter providing recommendations to improve CareerOneStop, a free hub from the U.S. Department of Labor that shares tools and data for career exploration, training, and job searching.

ALI response urging OMB to preserve merit-based grantmaking and remove Uniform Guidance provisions that would disrupt education R&D funding, dissemination, and stability.

This policy brief on career-connected learning, developed with coalition members and field experts, outlines federal recommendations to strengthen evidence-based CCL in American schools. The brief calls on Congress and the Administration to modernize R&D infrastructure, strengthen longitudinal data systems, and fund evidence-based career-connected learning programs that better connect classroom learning to workforce demand.

Read ALI’s FY2027 appropriations request letter to congressional appropriators. In the letter, ALI calls for sustained federal investment in the Institute of Education Sciences, the Department of Education’s Education Innovation and Research program, and key education and workforce initiatives at the Department of Labor and the National Science Foundation. Federal education R&D equips state and […]

The Workforce Behind America’s Innovation Edge: Federal Policy Actions to Secure U.S. Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing and Emerging Technologies, developed in partnership with the Digital Manufacturing & Cybersecurity Institute, outlines federal policy actions and investments needed to strengthen STEM education, career-connected learning, and workforce development in emerging technologies. It provides specific recommendations for Congress and […]

SBIR is essential to the U.S. innovation enterprise and is a powerful tool for the government to facilitate the commercialization of federally funded research. 

ALI Coalition letter requesting robust funding for education research and development (R&D) in the fiscal year 2026 appropriations bills.

ALI's recommendations for the redesign of the Institute of Education Sciences.

A spring 2025 national poll of registered voters finds the public overwhelmingly supports federal investments in education research and development (R&D). Regardless of political affiliation, voters agree that the federal government has a vital role to play in enabling robust education R&D. Voters cite a variety of reasons for their support, most notably that federally-funded […]

This page provides an overview of Centers for Transformative Education Research and Translation (CTERTs). If funded, these Centers would support multidisciplinary research and translation centers to scale up effective pre-K-12 STEM education innovations.