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By: FEDweek StaffOMB has said it is exploring the development of a federal government-wide learning agenda to complement agency-specific learning agendas being developed under the Foundations of Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018.
In a blog post, OMB said that individual agencies are expected to release their own learning agendas in February under that law, which will “focus on evidence-based policy and help create a culture of evidence throughout the government.”
It said a government-wide effort will “identify key cross-cutting unanswered questions raised by agency learning agendas and other sources and then encourage research within, beyond, and in partnership with the federal government to address those questions in a coordinated way.”
It added: “A learning agenda is not about delivering a thumbs up or down on a program for compliance monitoring. It is about learning which approaches work, why, and for whom, so those lessons can be applied across contexts . . . Clearly communicating a government-wide, management-focused learning agenda can catalyze coordinated innovation within and across agencies across state, local, and federal governments.”
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