Equity in the Driver's Seat: A Practice-Driven, Equity-Centered Approach for Setting R&D Agendas in Education

Digital Promise. 1001 Connecticut Avenue NW Suite 935, Washington DC 20036. Tel: 202-450-3675; e-mail: contact@digitalpromise.org; Web site: https://digitalpromise.org/

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Equal Education; Research and Development; Educational Research; Cooperative Planning; Stakeholders; Adolescents; Literacy Education; Barriers; Computation; Thinking Skills; Expertise; School Districts; Teamwork; Reflection; Secondary Education

Education research is too often based on gaps in published research or the niche interests of researchers, rather than the priority challenges faced by schools and districts. As a result, the education studies that researchers design and publish are often not applicable to schools' most pressing needs. To spur future research to address the specific equity goals of schools and districts, Digital Promise set out to define and test a collaborative process for developing practice-driven, equity-centered R&D agendas. Our process centered on convening a range of education stakeholders to listen to and prioritize the equity-related challenges that on-the-ground staff are facing, while considering prominent gaps in existing research and solutions. We selected two challenge topics around which to pilot this approach and create sample agendas (adolescent literacy and computational thinking).

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2021

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