28.064 - Translating Research to Policy: How Researchers Are Successfully Influencing Early Learning Programs in Three States

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The objective of this symposium is to highlight how research on the components of effective early childhood education have successfully informed state policy: What kind of research was conducted, how was it communicated, and what was its effect? The panel will begin with researchers who have been deeply involved in the development of state early learning policies, including high-quality birth-through-preschool programs in North Carolina and New Jersey and effective professional learning in Washington state. Through a discussion moderated by the authors of a new book on the successful implementation of high-quality preschool programs in four states, the panelists will present how they have effectively communicated scholarly research to policymakers in a post-truth era.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Early Education and Child Development

Chair

• Madelyn Gardner, Learning Policy Institute

Papers

• Key Findings and Lessons Learned From a Long-Term Research-Policy Collaboration: Evaluation of the North Carolina Pre-K Program - Ellen S. Peisner-Feinberg, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• 20 Years of Applying Campbell's "Experimenting Society" Methods to Preschool Policy in New Jersey - Ellen Frede, National Institute for Early Education Research

• Research to Policy to Action: Coaching and Quality in Early Learning and Out-of-School Time - Gail Joseph, University of Washington

Discussants

• David Kirp, The University of California-Berkeley

• Marjorie E. Wechsler, Learning Policy Institute