As a researcher and science writer wondering like many others why evidence does not always appear to make a difference in policy, I found myself deeply engaged in Karen Bogenschneider and Tom ...

This approach relies on registries like the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices, which contains evidence for ...

Education researchers could soon have an easier time finding and using federal data on everything from child health to school finances, under the newly passed Foundations for Evidence-Based ...

Colorado's state capitol. Evidence-based government has been embraced by the legislative and executive branches. (Photo: David Kidd) Before COVID, governors had hoped to increase general fund ...

Laurenz Langer works for the Africa Centre for Evidence (ACE), University of Johannesburg. ACE has received funding from South African government departments to support evidence synthesis and evidence ...

The federal government’s total debt exceeds $18.1 trillion.[1] However, even this huge figure understates the nation’s debt. Due to the absence of fiscal restraint after restoration of the debt limit ...

Despite some recent improvements, the academic achievement of American students remains below that of those in most industrialized nations, and the gap between African American and Hispanic students ...

Who doesn’t believe evidence should guide our decisions? Basing care and policy on evidence seems the best approach intuitively but why then is it so difficult to accomplish? A commentary in Public ...

Evidence-based medicine has made progress since doctors’ infamous bloodletting of George Washington, but less than you might think. By Austin Frakt A leech basin and other bloodletting instruments, ...