J-PAL North America’s Education, Technology, and Opportunity Innovation Competition announces inaugural partners
J-PAL North America, a research center at MIT, has announced that it will partner with two leading education technology nonprofits to test promising models to improve learning, as part of the inaugural round of the Education, Technology, and Opportunity Innovation Competition. Launched at MIT this past year, J-PAL North America’s Education, Technology, and Opportunity Innovation Competition supports education leaders in using randomized evaluations to generate evidence on how technology can improve student learning, particularly for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. J-PAL North America’s inaugural competition partners are the Family Engagement Lab, an education technology nonprofit that aims to promote effective at-home learning opportunities, and the Western Governors University Center for Applied Learning Science, an online innovation lab that seeks to improve student performance in math. “We’re excited to partner with Family Engagement Lab and Western Governors University to develop randomized evaluations that can help us better understand the potential for technology to meaningfully improve education...