Public Scholars Using Research to Educate Politicians: Lessons for Those Who Want to Engage

• In Event: Roundtable Session 36
  In Roundtable Session: Evidence, Policy, and Politics

Abstract

For decades, university based education scholars have documented a gap between recommendations produced by university-based education scholars and the evidence that politicians’ use when deciding which educational policies to implement. This study seeks to address this problem by identifying university-based education scholars who are demonstrably successful at engaging with politicians with the explicit goal of getting scholarly research to be used for decision-making purposes. As a result of the findings from this study, I offer suggestions for steps scholars can take if they aspire to engage in public scholarship and want to see research used by politicians.

Author

• Emily Rydel Ackman, Harvard University