Building Evidence for Policy Through Research Partnerships in Education

Harvard HGSE

This course prepares students to use rigorous empirical evidence to inform education policy. Students will learn to read quantitative research carefully, interpret coefficients and research designs, distinguish descriptive patterns from causal claims, and translate findings for practitioners, policymakers, and the public.The course is organized around research-practice partnerships in education. Each module pairs a policy problem with an empirical approach: descriptive diagnosis in a K-12…