Virginia Knox

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Virginia Knox

Virginia Knox

@PrezMDRC

President of MDRC (@MDRC_News), a nonprofit, nonpartisan education and social policy research organization. Views expressed here are my own.

NYC/ Washington DC Katılım Kasım 2019
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Tara E W@taraelizwatson·
Delighted to be the new director of the Center on Children and Families @BrookingsEcon! We're starting the process of re-envisioning the Center - send me your ideas of how we can contribute to the U.S. social policy conversation most effectively.
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Virginia Knox@PrezMDRC·
So proud of this @MDRC_News research trifecta on strategies for #collegecompletion - RELEVANT for decision-makers, RIGOROUS, and REPLICATED
Arnold Ventures@Arnold_Ventures

We sat down with Mike Weiss of @MDRC_News to talk about its recent Higher Education Randomized Controlled Trial project (THE-RCT), its #highereducation return on investment tool, and the importance of #collegecompletion. Read the full interview below: arnoldventures.org/stories/findin…

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Virginia Knox@PrezMDRC·
Check out this fantastic August course on evidence use for master’s students at @HGSE
Carrie Conaway@clconaway

Today @hgse is doing something awesome: launching our first required course in evidence use for all 600+ of our master's students. A 🧵…

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Virginia Knox@PrezMDRC·
Congratulations on your new position @EloyOakley, continuing your important work building greater equity in higher education
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Christina Weiland@weilanch·
Thanks for much @WCorrin718 for sharing your insights and wisdom with us today on rigor, research, & relationships! Very quotable talk throughout... particularly loved sage advice on "leaving research island" to connect research and practice. @MDRC_News @edpolicyford
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Ed Policy Initiative@edpolicyford

NEXT WEEK! Ed Policy Speaker Series! bit.ly/edpolspeak William Corrin, Director of K-12 Ed (MDRC), presents: "Three Rs of (education) policy research: relevance, rigor, and relationships" March 29 @ 12:30pm E.T. 📅 All virtual🖥️ RSVP: bit.ly/edspeak_mar29 @weilanch

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MDRC Center for Data Insights
We've learned so much from our collaboration with @ceoworks in incorporating feedback from their participants using data science and participatory research methods!
Brad Dudding@BradDudding

As a @ceoworks alumni, I was thrilled to reconnect with Ahmed Whitt at #fblsummit and hear the results of CEO's data analysis on participant feedback evaluated by @mdrc. Bottom line: feedback practices drive outcomes w. response rate over 50%. Kudos! @feedbacklabs @4SharedInsight

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Hilary Hoynes@HilaryHoynes·
And I should add I’m delighted to have appeared alongside a smart powerful compassionate and effective group of women for this piece. @KimberlyGNoble @DrDanaSuskind @Gen_Pov and @Kim_Janey
Hilary Hoynes@HilaryHoynes

It was fun talking with Stephen about child poverty in the US for this episode. #bucketlist ! And good timing on the release of the episode - today is child tax credit day - 3rd month of dropping these payments!

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Virginia Knox@PrezMDRC·
@kearney_melissa Applying behavioral science to schools’ communications with parents - Reduce cognitive load!
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Melissa S. Kearney@kearney_melissa·
Surely I'm not the only one drowing in back-to-school emails from my university & my kids' schools... A modest proposal: Instead of long emails with thoughtful commentary about uncertainty, expectations, priorities, etc & hyperlinks to documents noting what we have to do....
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I am pleased to announce that we are voluntarily recognizing Social Policy Workers United (SPWU) as the union representing MDRC staff.....
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MDRC
MDRC@MDRC_News·
NEW! Strengthening Research Through Participatory Methods: Partnering with Young People to Study Persistence and Engagement in the Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP) Initiative mdrc.org/5Pf
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