The applicant guidance provided below will help applicants prepare their letters of inquiry. A selection of our staff writing provides deeper insight into how the Foundation approaches this focus area and our goals for this initiative. In addition, a series of commissioned papers authored by experts outlines priorities for future research on reducing inequality in a range of fields, including education, immigration, justice, and mental health.
Applicant Guidance
Staff Writing
- Reducing Inequality for English Learners: Research Questions for the Field
Vivian Louie, 2016
- Toward a New Research Agenda to Improve Outcomes for Adolescent English Learners
Carola Suárez-Orozco and Vivian Louie, 2016
- The Future of Educational Inequality: What Went Wrong and How Can We Fix It?
Adam Gamoran, 2015
- Inequality is the Problem: Prioritizing Research on Reducing Inequality
Adam Gamoran, 2014
- Identifying Responses to Inequality: The Potential of Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Research
Vivian Louie, 2016
Commissioned Papers
- Disparities in Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Mental Health Services in the U.S.
Margarita Alegría, Jennifer Greif Green, Katie A. McLaughlin, and Stephen Loder, 2015
- Investing in Knowledge: Insights on the Funding Landscape for Research on Inequality Among Young People in the United States
Sarah Bruch, 2015
- Inequality and Opportunity: The Role of Exclusion, Social Capital, and Generic Social Processes in Upward Mobility
Linda Burton and Whitney Welsh, 2015
- Inequality Matters
Prudence Carter and Sean Reardon, 2014
- Understanding Inequality and the Justice System Response: Charting a New Way Forward
John Laub, 2014
- The New Forgotten Half and Research Directions to Support Them
James Rosenbaum, Caitlin Ahearn, Kelly Becker, and Janet Rosenbaum, 2015
- Intersecting Inequalities: Research to Reduce Inequality for Immigrant-Origin Children and Youth
Carola Suárez-Orozco, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, and Vivian Tseng, 2015