Our Mission
Our mission is to transform the education system to ensure all students, especially the most vulnerable and marginalized populations, receive an outstanding education that enables them to grow academically, thrive socially and emotionally, and realize satisfying adult lives.
Learn more about our mission and our path to achieving it in two whitepapers written by members of our Executive Committee:
- The Need for an Educational Evidence Base: An Overview of the Evidence Advocacy Center, by Dr. Douglas Carnine
- Bringing Evidence to the Forefront in Education: Our Vision in Founding the Evidence Advocacy Center, by Linda Diamond, M.Ed.
Our Vision
The Evidence Advocacy Center (EAC) envisions an education system that values evidence in educator preparation programs, in in-service education, in continuing education, and in the work that goes on within the school and the classroom. To achieve this, evidence-based licensure, accreditation, continuing education, and accountability are needed to permanently transform education into an adequately funded and supported evidence-based profession.
Our Values
Widespread School Failure Causes Serious, Life-Long Problems
What’s the Cause of the Education Crisis?
- A failure to use evidence of effectiveness, resulting in large numbers of students failing needlessly
- A failure to protect students from ineffective and even harmful instructional practices and materials.
- A failure to establish accountability for educators.
- A failure to sustain the use of evidence-based standards of practice.
What is the Solution?
Evidence should drive all aspects of the education system. The Evidence Advocacy Center’s (EAC) short-term and long-term goals are designed to address the U.S. education crisis by:
- Dramatically increasing the proper implementation of evidence-based resources.
- Transforming education into a mature, evidence-based profession.
To achieve these goals, EAC will collaborate with and leverage the existing resources of well-known organizations focusing on the use of evidence and serves as a clearinghouse to connect states, districts, schools, educator preparation programs, and parent advocates to curated, trustworthy resources. The EAC also collaborates with a consortium of states to advance evidence-based licensure, accreditation, continuing education, and accountability.
Finally, the EAC will convene a consortium of states to identify and promote comprehensive, evidence-based certification, licensure, accreditation, continuing education, and accountability for the U.S. educational system.
Read more about the importance of high-performing educators in ensuring high academic achievement for students, especially with economically disadvantaged and marginalized populations.
The education crisis should not be blamed on failure of individual teachers or principals; the current system is the cause of the achievement crisis.
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