An item from the folks at IES that may have some interest among readers of this space.

From the IES Director: The Path Forward for NCADE, Part I With less than six months to the end of my term as Director of IES, I have been thinking about what to focus on during my remaining time in office. I believe that setting out guidelines to ensure the success of NCADE (the National Center for Advanced Development in Education, aka, ARPA-ED) is where I can best contribute. For over two decades, IES has tried to tackle a wide range of R&D using just a limited set of R&D tools and approaches. By adopting and adapting tools that are already deployed at other ARPAs around government, IES via NCADE will be able to more systematically invest in breakthrough ideas using a modern R&D framework designed to better handle risk, facilitate transition from research to practice, support scaling of successful interventions, and explore innovations that the current the education R&D system does not now easily support. We know this transformation is important. The Department of Education has been a consistent and strong proponent of establishing NCADE as a new center within IES. Many outside organizations have been equally strong supporters, in particular the Alliance for Learning Innovation (ALI). The reauthorization of the Education Sciences Reform Act (ESRA), the legislation that governs IES, is a possible avenue for establishing NCADE, as is the NEED Act. While I have written about NCADE before, ongoing discussions with the department, ALI, Congress, and other stakeholders have helped identify and refine a future for NCADE. In a few planned blogs, I will lay out some of my thoughts on the building blocks that will lay the strongest foundation for NCADE. Read the full blog. The Institute of Education Sciences, a part of the U.S. Department of Education, is the nation’s leading source for rigorous, independent education research, evaluation, statistics, and assessment.

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