; (2) promote evidence use among practitioners, education system leaders, and policymakers and promote continuous improvement across early childhood through postsecondary study; (3) manage the What Works Clearinghouse and related functions described in section 155; (4) support engagement between the Institute and practitioners, education system leaders, and policymakers, which may include— (A) analyzing the evidence bases of research areas related to challenges facing students and practitioners across early childhood through postsecondary study, and identifying such areas that require additional study; (B) supporting practitioners in understanding research processes in order to maximize the participation and engagement of such practitioners in developing research questions, designs, measurements, and methods; and (C) communicating research areas identified under subparagraph (A) to the Commissioner for Education Research, the Commissioner for Special Education Research, and researchers in order to help increase and build the evidence bases of research areas related to challenges facing students and practitioners, which may be carried out through the functions of the National Education Research Database developed under section 155(b); (5) support the regional educational laboratories in serving the educational needs of the geographic regions of such laboratories; (6) manage the Educational Resources Information Center clearinghouse; (7) manage the National Library of Education described in section 156(b) and other sources of digital information on education research; (8) ensure that evidence-based products or tools developed by the Evaluation and Evidence Use Center are prepared in a timely manner and are widely disseminated to practitioners, education system leaders, and policymakers in formats that are high quality, easily accessible, understandable, and actionable