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Event: Common Sense – What’s Missing from Evidence-Based Education Policy

September 16, 2020 | 2:00 - 3:00 PM EST
September 17, 2020

Virtual forum on improving data and research use in education policy and practice hosted by Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy and FutureEd

How can researchers make their work more valuable and accessible to practitioners and policymakers? 

Common Sense: What’s Missing from Evidence-Based Education Policy convened different perspectives in education policy to discuss these questions and explore Common-Sense Evidence: The Education Leader’s Guide to Using Data and Research, a new book providing a guide to helping education leaders use data and research to improve outcomes.

Panel Speakers:

  • Emily Hanford, senior correspondent, APM Reports
  • Nora Gordon, associate professor, McCourt School of Public Policy and author, Common-Sense Evidence
  • Thomas Toch, director, FutureEd (moderator)
  • William Corrin, director, K-12 Education Policy Area, MDRC