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The R4S team has decades of combined experience studying the use of data and research evidence by schools and school leaders. Explore their featured work below and in our publication archive. Looking for something shorter? Try our Resource Center.

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Educators’ Networks as a primary search strategy for finding useful evidence

Educators’ Networks as a primary search strategy for finding useful evidence
This report describes where educators search for their evidence to inform decisions.Continue reading Educators’ Networks as a primary search strategy for finding useful evidence

Horatio Blackman
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Local Knowledge, Research Knowledge, and Educational Change: A Case Study of Early Spanish Reading Improvement

Local Knowledge, Research Knowledge, and Educational Change: a Case Study of Early Spanish Reading Improvement
Reforming schools depends on the interplay between research and local knowledge. This article uses examples from a multiyear project to improve reading achievement of Spanish-speaking children. Continue reading Local Knowledge, Research Knowledge, and Educational Change: A Case Study of Early Spanish Reading Improvement

Claude Goldenberg, Ronald Gallimore
The Institute of Education Sciences: A Model for Federal Research Offices

The Institute of Education Sciences: A Model for Federal Research Offices
Research offices of cabinet-level departments in the federal government are crucial in maintaining and promoting evidence-based policy. Grover J. Whitehurst uses the Institute of Education Sciences as a model for addressing the challenges and recommendations for improving the functioning of federal government research offices. Continue reading The Institute of Education Sciences: A Model for Federal Research Offices

Grover Whitehurst
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Where do Educators go to Learn About Research?

Where do Educators go to Learn About Research?
Identifies the people, organizations, and social media educators report as their sources for research-based information.
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Elizabeth Farley-Ripple
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Types of Problems and Decisions Occurring in Schools

Types of Problems and Decisions Occurring in Schools
This Data Point provides insight into the types of problems school-based educators commonly face, and the types of decisions that are made to address those problems.Continue reading Types of Problems and Decisions Occurring in Schools

Kati Tilley
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A Knowledge Base for the Teaching Profession: What Would It Look Like and How Can We Get One?

A Knowledge Base for the Teaching Profession: What Would it Look Like and How Can We Get One?
This study explores the possibilities of building a useful knowledge base for teaching by beginning with practitioners’ knowledge and identifies the requirements for this knowledge to be transformed into a professional knowledge base for teaching. Continue reading A Knowledge Base for the Teaching Profession: What Would It Look Like and How Can We Get One?

James Hiebert, Ronald Gallimore, James W. Stigler
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Structures for Research Use in Schools

Structures for Research Use in Schools
In our recent survey, teachers and administrators were asked to describe how they hear about research to help make decisions about classroom practice, school-based decisions, and district-level decisions. This report shows what “structures” educators have available. Continue reading Structures for Research Use in Schools

CRUE Researchers
Year One Results from the Multi-Site Randomized Evaluation of the i3 Scale-Up of Reading Recovery

Year One Results from the Multi-Site Randomized Evaluation of the 13 Scale-Up of Reading Recovery
This article presents the year one results of the short-term, one-to one intervention, Reading Recovery (RR), designed to help the lowest-achieving readers in first grade. Continue reading Year One Results from the Multi-Site Randomized Evaluation of the i3 Scale-Up of Reading Recovery

Henry May, Abigail Gray, Philip Sirinides, Heather Goldsworthy, Michael Armijo, Cecile Sam, Jessica N. Gillespie, Namrata Tognatta
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Problems & Decisions in School A

Problems & Decisions in School A
In this school-level analysis of organizational decisions and the problems that motivated them, learn what the R4S team found regarding the number of decisions and the perceptions of the problem the decisions addressed.Continue reading Problems & Decisions in School A

Kati Tilley

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