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WADE INTO THE DEEP BORING OCEAN:

Brian W. Head, “Three Lenses of Evidence-Based Policy” The Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 1–11

PEW Charitable Trusts, “Evidence Based Policymaking: A Guide for Effective Government (Nov 2014) http://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/assets/2014/11/evidencebasedpolicymakingaguideforeffectivegovernment.pdf

Wayne Parsons, “From Muddling Through to Muddling Up: Evidence Based Policy-Making and the Modernisation of British Government
http://www.flacso.edu.mx/biblioiberoamericana/TEMPFTP/CATEDRA2SEM05/From%20Muddling%20through%20to%20muddling%20up,%20Parsons%20W.pdf

Government Panel: Discussion on Evidence-Based Policy in Government
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwr9RmWV48Y

Debra K. Anderson, “Mucking Through The Swamp: Changing The Pedagogy of a Social Welfare Policy Course” Journal of Teaching In Social Work 20016 http://www.bu.edu/ssw/files/pdf/Anderson-D.K.1.pdf

Elaine Kamarck, “Obama’s Budget Lays Out an Ambitious Evidence-Based Policy Agenda” (via Brookings) February 5, 2015
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/posts/2015/02/04-obama-budget-evidence-based-policy-kamarck

White House Press Briefing, “We Can't Wait: President Obama Takes Action to Improve Quality and Promote Accountability in Head Start Programs” 2011
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/11/08/we-cant-wait-president-obama-takes-action-improve-quality-and-promote-ac

Head Start Impact Study: Third Grade Follow Up
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/opre/head_start_report.pdf

Ron Haskins and Greg Margolis, “Show Me The Evidence” (book)
https://www.amazon.com/Show-Me-Evidence-Obamas-Results-ebook/dp/B00OJONDAC?ie=UTF8&btkr=1&redirect=true&ref_=dp-kindle-redirect

Ron Haskins, “Social Programs That Work” (via NY Times) 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/01/opinion/social-programs-that-work.html?_r=0

Ron Haskins, Advisory Board and Jon Baron, President, Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy “Ron Haskins, Advisory Board and Jon Baron, President,
Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy” http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/articles/2011/4/obama-social-policy-haskins/04_obama_social_policy_haskins.pdf

Charles E. Lindblom, “The Science of "Muddling Through"” Public Administration Review, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Spring, 1959), pp. 79-88
http://www.jstor.org.proxy.wexler.hunter.cuny.edu/stable/pdf/973677.pdf?_=1463176132857

Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst, “Can We Be Hard-Headed About Preschool? A Look at Head Start” (via Brookings) 2013
http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2013/01/16-preschool-whitehurst#_ftn1


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