
During her opening remarks at our 4th Annual National Convening, Coleridge Initiative President and CEO, @Ahu_Yildirmaz announced that @MDRC_News and the Coleridge Initiative have partnered to launch the State IMPACT Collaborative. bit.ly/4cxJUau
Virginia Knox
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President of MDRC (@MDRC_News), a nonprofit, nonpartisan education and social policy research organization. Views expressed here are my own.

During her opening remarks at our 4th Annual National Convening, Coleridge Initiative President and CEO, @Ahu_Yildirmaz announced that @MDRC_News and the Coleridge Initiative have partnered to launch the State IMPACT Collaborative. bit.ly/4cxJUau

NEW from MDRC's Evidence First podcast! Reflections on the Evidence-Building Movement, featuring: ✅@PrezMDRC Virginia Knox ✅MDRC Board member Naomi Goldstein (former @OPRE_ACF Deputy Assistant Secretary) mdrc.org/qfN




So honored to be the new Chair of the MDRC Board of Directors mdrc.org/TFH

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…


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



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

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

Thinking about what aspects of quality might matter for kids? New work out by @Meghan_McCorm @weilanch and me highlighting a potentially important aspect of #prek classroom quality not typically captured in standard quality tools: content! A 🧵 authors.elsevier.com/c/1eX0G39HNKaT…

NEW from MDRC's InPractice blog! Three Ways to Improve the Quality of #Preschool Programs, by @Michelle_MaierN & @shiramattera mdrc.org/5tP

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!


