Giving Compass' Take:

• Emily Tate discusses how one organization is working to overcome a major hurdle in education research: making sure that teachers can access, understand, and use the research to improve their classrooms. 

• How can funders help to identify and repackage existing research into a form that is usable for teachers? How can research be better created and presented going forward? 

• Learn more about the need to create better, more useful reports


Nearly every week, if not every day, a new report comes out detailing the latest findings and results around what works—or doesn’t—when it comes to the latest instructional approaches and tech tools. But what’s clearly not working is getting educators to pay attention to this research to inform their own work in the classroom.

In the spirit of putting the educators at the center of education research, the nonprofit Jefferson Education Exchange (JEX) and the Institute of Education Science (IES)—the independent research arm of the U.S. Department of Education—have joined forces to embark on a listening tour to understand if and how their current research strategy is missing the mark.

With educators’ input, the IES will stick to the same research science that it’s been using for years, Schneider says. But it will expand its purview to consider ways of translating that science into something “accessible and usable” that teachers can implement—through products, curriculum, intervention methods, teaching styles.

Read the full article about education research by Emily Tate at EdSurge.