Victoria McDougald and Michael Petrilli will lead an effort to help junior-level scholars become better at disseminating their research and sharing their expertise with members of the policy community. Scholars will engage with key members of the policy community, attend workshops on writing for a policy audience, and learn about emerging policy issues.
Michael Petrilli and Adam Tyner will direct the research activities of a policy lab exploring the landscape of policies, programs, and practices that can promote educational excellence among high-achieving students from disadvantaged backgrounds. They will field a survey of the hundred largest school districts in the country to identify their policies and practices that support high-achieving students and will create a working group composed of a diverse group of education policy experts to identify practices that increase access to such programs. The output from this policy lab will appear in a series of reports, papers, and policy briefs.