What works best to teach children in our schools? How does pollution affect public health? These are just some of the big questions researchers try to answer every day. But all too often, their findings don’t actually help usher in improvements. Why not? The William T. Grant Foundation’s Vivian Tseng shares the history of research use in education policy, how a new approach to research can improve connections between scholars and policymakers, and what further changes are needed to make research matter.