There is a diverse community of policymakers, funders, scholars, and practitioners of different types all working in the field of evidence use. This diversity is a strength for the academic field of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sara Schapiro writes about education, innovation, and public policy. Sep 19, 2025, 12:37pm EDT As students, teachers, and families ...

One of the great—if largely unsung—bipartisan congressional acts of recent history was the passage in 2018 of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act. In essence, the “Evidence Act” ...

The results of facial recognition software might not be admissible evidence—but the police are allowed to use them to generate admissible evidence. From People v. Reyes, decided last week by Justice ...

Amid shrinking budgets, multiplying federal and state requirements for school improvement, and rapidly changing educational technology, it’s critical for education leaders to identify whether a given ...

An examination of relevant case law regarding these rules suggests that CPLR 3211(a)(7) may actually provide a more flexible vehicle for the use of evidence than CPLR 3211(a)(1). The rules are ...

Civil litigators often overlook character evidence, assuming it to be inadmissible. But the Federal Rules of Evidence and their state counterparts do not impose a categorical ban on character evidence ...

Leaders often tell us that they collect a plethora of data but do not always find the time to look at it, much less talk about it with staff and use it to take actionable next steps. That’s ...