Dr. Rekha Balu, Director, MDRC Center for Applied Behavioral Science, will present an Education Policy Colloquium titled, "How Intervention Research Informs Policy and Inequality." Since 2011, she has led research studies and designed interventions tackling challenges in K-12 education, child welfare, and parenting, often deploying technology-driven solutions such as apps, text-message campaigns, and online tools. She has partnered with institutions around the country to help them base their decisions on data, incorporate predictive analytics, design interventions to solve process challenges, and test those interventions in randomized field trials or other rigorous research designs.