Proving Ground, one of CEPR's research-practice partnerships with districts, was highlighted as a strategy for states looking to improve evidence-based decisionmaking by local leaders under ESSA in the following case study by the Data Quality Campaign.
States have a responsibility to help local education agencies use evidence to make decisions to support student learning. Proving Ground is a research–practice partnership based at Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research that gives local agencies deeper insight into the effectiveness of the strategies they are using to improve student outcomes and support to implement improvements. This collaboration empowers those closest to students to build and use evidence for decisionmaking. States can draw inspiration from this effort in their work to support evidence-based continuous improvement.
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