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RESEARCH, POLICY AND PRACTICE:Using Ground-Level Research to Improve Policymaking and Public Discussion
Kim Nauer Education Research Director Center for New York City Affairs, The New School
o Center’s Role in NYC: Focus mainly on poverty and youth policy and NYC education system reform.
o Important Expertise: Senior staff all former journalists, paired with New School applied policy grad students.
o Audience: Focus on three-levels: policymakers, professional intermediaries, parents and activists.
o Tools, Strategies, Results: Ground up reporting and Insideschools.org feeding research, events, partnerships, policy work, press and direct service.
Center’s Role in New York City: Systems and Policy Analysis Work: Child and Family Poverty, P-16 Education Reform, Child Welfare, Mental Health, Juvenile Justice, Immigration, Urban Planning and Management.
Center’s Role in New York City: Using journalistic writing and design tools to explain complicated policy initiatives in an effort to clarify the discussion for policymakers and stakeholders.