In order to tackle challenges facing society, such as the energy transition, digitalization, or pandemics, structured, transparent, and fact-based political decision-making processes are needed.

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” ...

Evidence-based decision making (EBDM)—using the best available evidence from multiple sources to make informed decisions—is critical to the success of any organization. In a new study, researchers ...

The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 (commonly referred to as the Evidence Act) requires changes to how the federal government manages and uses the information it collects, ...

Policy-makers around the world are grappling with how to govern increasingly powerful artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Some jurisdictions, like the European Union (EU), have made substantial ...

What makes an education intervention evidence-based? Over the last 20 years, that question has moved front and center as more federal and state agencies require programs to show evidence of ...

Coverage of the recent enactment of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a major rewrite of the much-maligned No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), has rightly focused on Congress’s decision to give ...

Evidence-based practices (EBPs) — which include activities, strategies, and interventions — are "derived from or informed by objective evidence—most commonly, educational research or metrics of school ...

Local and personal factors, such as neighborhood, race, gender, and age, significantly influence our mental health status. Between 2000 and 2020, for example, rural communities experienced a 46 ...