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Despite schools being positioned as a crucial setting for youth suicide prevention, there remains confusion over what key prevention activities are effective and how these efforts should be organized.

If you're looking to use evidence in your school or looking to conduct evidence synthesis, we've got you covered.

In May, the HEDCO institute released findings from our review on school-based anxiety prevention programs for K-12 students, underscoring the importance of addressing anxiety in childhood..

Reclassification is a fresh start for English learner students. Once reclassified, former EL students no longer receive specialized services. 

Even as the proportion of EL students continues to increase, data show persistent disparities in academic achievement and educational opportunities between EL students and their non-EL peers.

This tool will help you explore the research studies in the literature and how their findings may be relevant to your school community and the students you support.

Stakeholder involvement is particularly important in education, where interventions are often complex, and educators bring valuable expertise that situates empirical findings in the on-the-ground reality of schools.

In November, the HEDCO Institute published a brief report summarizing what research has been done to date, such as what student populations, schools, and states have been studied. Here's how to use it.

Are humans ready to use AI to help us with evidence-based decision making in the K-12 education space? And is AI technology ready to assist us?

In this month’s guest blog post, Assistant Research Professor Gena Nelson shares her motivation for conducting a systematic review of the literature on home-based math activities, as well as some key highlights from the review.