In recent decades, calls for evidence-based policy in crime and criminal justice have become commonplace. But there is a disconnect between those calls and an understanding of what evidence-based ...

Agencies and the White House are getting into the weeds of how to put the OPEN Government Data Act into effect. Almost a year after the passage of the OPEN Government Data Act and the Foundations for ...

One of the great—if largely unsung—bipartisan congressional acts of recent history was the passage in 2018 of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act. In essence, the “Evidence Act” ...

A lot of debate exists around whether the federal government’s main food assistance program for poor Americans – the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program (SNAP) – should restrict certain items ...

Who doesn’t believe evidence should guide our decisions? Basing care and policy on evidence seems the best approach intuitively but why then is it so difficult to accomplish? A commentary in Public ...

Amid shrinking budgets, multiplying federal and state requirements for school improvement, and rapidly changing educational technology, it’s critical for education leaders to identify whether a given ...