RESEARCH, POLICY AND PRACTICE:Using Ground-Level Research to Improve Policymaking and Public Discussion

Kim Nauer Education Research Director Center for New York City Affairs, The New School

o Center’s Role in NYC: Focus mainly on poverty and youth policy and NYC education system reform.

o Important Expertise: Senior staff all former journalists, paired with New School applied policy grad students.

o Audience: Focus on three-levels: policymakers, professional intermediaries, parents and activists.

o Tools, Strategies, Results: Ground up reporting and Insideschools.org feeding research, events, partnerships, policy work, press and direct service.

Center’s Role in New York City: Systems and Policy Analysis Work: Child and Family Poverty, P-16 Education Reform, Child Welfare, Mental Health, Juvenile Justice, Immigration, Urban Planning and Management.

Center’s Role in New York City: Using journalistic writing and design tools to explain complicated policy initiatives in an effort to clarify the discussion for policymakers and stakeholders.

From Research to Policy: NYC School AccountabilityPublished Report Analyzing NYC’s Controversial Accountability System A number of reforms and ideas immediately adopted by the DOE