Project Evident
Project Title
As a final general support grant
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
While the demand for evidence-based educational programming continues to grow, a persistent gap remains between research and practice. As a result, school districts and states are too often unable to effectively identify and implement evidence-based solutions aligned to their specific needs and desired outcomes. With support from the Corporation, Project Evident (PE) was founded to increase the practice of continuous evidence-building and the supply of evidence-based solutions in the social sector. PE partners with state and local education leaders to use their data and evidence more effectively to continuously improve operational, financial, policy, and programmatic decisions in the pursuit of better student outcomes. With continued support from the Corporation, PE will continue its efforts to provide direct services to school districts and intermediaries, develop and share resources, and create an AI-enabled tool to reach more districts and nonprofits.
Project Title
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
27 months
Description
While the demand for evidence-based education programming has grown over thepast several years, a persistent gap remains between research and practice.Priorities and incentives are misaligned across these stakeholders, withnonprofits and districts rarely the drivers of the research agenda or inpossession of the evaluative capacity to develop and iterate upon evidence-based programming. As a result, promising approaches go unstudied and unimplemented, and fragmentation and one-time, unsustainable improvement persists. Project Evident (PE) was founded to increase the practice of continuous evidence building and the supply of evidence-based solutions in the social sector. This grant will support PE’s work to serve five state education agencies and 45 local school districts in the next four years and allow the organization to further test and refine its engagement model as well as engage in key field building activities.