After a rigorous review, the Institutional Challenge Grant selection committee has invited four finalists from a pool of 25 applications. This group of research-practice partnerships shows great promise for using research to address existing inequalities that affect youth’s experiences and outcomes at school, and their proposed plans for institutional change will better support and value researchers who engage in this important type of scholarship.

If we hope to train practitioners to use new interventions with fidelity, it may be necessary to first explicitly differentiate between previous and new instructional practices.

The Foundation is interested in funding studies that examine social movements as a strategy to target macro-structural inequalities that affect youth outcomes. Such studies might focus on youth-led movements or on adult-led movements that affect youth, but the central focus should examine the conditions or mechanisms through which movements can reduce inequality in youth outcomes.

Senior Vice President of Program Vivian Tseng shares reflections on the past decade of work on the use of research evidence.