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Too often, contracting is seen as a back-office function, even though many government programs are actually implemented with contracted serv...
When we think about what skills leaders need to be successful — such as making good decisions, regulating their emotions and stress, a...
To celebrate our 200th interview, we are joined by one of the most respected people within the evidence and evaluation field, Dr. Naomi Gold...
Colorado is a leader in the U.S. in terms of using evidence to guide state budget decisions, so that dollars flow to programs that are effec...
An important area of innovation within higher-education policy in recent years has been tuition-free college policies — also known as...
Tuition-free college policies have become a cornerstone of policymakers’ efforts to expand college access, affordability, and degree attainm...
Arnold Ventures launched its evidence-based policy initiative in 2015 in large part to increase the number of social programs with strong ev...
Minnesota has been identified by several good-government organizations as one of the leaders in the nation on evidence-based policymaking. T...
Ohio’s Department of Education is one of the leading state agencies in the U.S. in terms of its focus on helping and encouraging schoo...
Anne Arundel County, Maryland, has a population of just under 600,000 and is south of Baltimore and East of Washington D.C., with the county...
What does it take to be a successful evaluation office within a public agency? Three things that are important are being trustworthy, being...
The New Hope Project was an anti-poverty program in the 1990s in Milwaukee that offered a simple but powerful pledge: If participants were w...
New Mexico state government is a leader in the use of evidence, lead by its Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) that has been a catalyst for...
Last month, New Mexico’s Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) did something that that possibly no other legislative committee in the U.S. has...
John Kotter (@JohnPKotter) is one of the most respected thinkers on the topics of leadership and change. He is professor emeritus at the Har...
Idaho’s Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE) was created in 1994 and is a nonpartisan, independent office that serves the Idaho legislatu...
A logic model is a detailed visual representation of an organization or program that expresses the organization’s theory of change. It...
What leads decision makers to decide to implement or scale up a program? Research evidence may be one factor, but, as we know, lots of other...
Tennessee’s Office of Evidence and Impact was created in 2019 by Governor Bill Lee. The office works with the Governor’s office and wi...
A new policy brief examines the research evidence behind tutoring and what design principles for tutoring have shown to be important for boo...