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Nominate early childhood interventions

By John Lloyd on Aug. 2, 2008.

The Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy has issued a call for nominations of “Social Interventions Meeting ‘Top Tier’ Evidence of Effectiveness” with a specific focus on early childhood interventions. The coalition is a non-profit and non-partisan organization that is affiliated with the Council for Excellence in Government. Its mission is “to promote government policymaking based on rigorous evidence of program effectiveness.”

Recent Congressional legislative provisions seek to focus funds in certain federal social programs on models and strategies (“interventions”) meeting Top Tier evidence of effectiveness – i.e., “that have been shown, in well-designed randomized controlled trials, to produce sizeable, sustained effects on important … outcomes.” To assist federal agencies, grantees, and others in implementing these provisions effectively, the nonprofit, nonpartisan Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy is launching an initiative to identify and validate interventions meeting this evidence standard. Here is a link [see end] to a 3-page Project Overview (plus appendices).
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