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Issue 05: Winter 2019-20

The Long Shadow: Considering How Racism Shapes Justice System Inequality and Efforts to Disrupt it

What is needed is not a one-off intervention, but an informed understanding of how racism makes its way into encounters between youth and police and a commitment to addressing the structural forces...

Nikki Jones

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Geoffrey Raymond

Regents of the University of California, Santa Barbara, University of California at Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Santa Barbara

Issue 05: Winter 2019-20

No Small Matters: Reimagining the Use of Research Evidence From A Racial Justice Perspective

We can no more afford methodologically rich research studies that lack racial consciousness than we can afford racially conscious studies that lack methodological rigor.

David Kirkland

Issue 05: Winter 2019-20

Shifting the Lens: Why Conceptualization Matters in Research on Reducing Inequality

To begin shifting the underlying structures of inequality, scholars can harness the power of rigorous research to produce innovative, ground-breaking research that might further upend the narratives...

Jenny Irons

Issue 05: Winter 2019-20

Centering the Margins: (Re)defining Useful Research Evidence Through Critical Perspectives

Improving the use of research evidence will require ensuring usefulness—and use—toward ends that are congruent with the goals and visions that marginalized communities have for their self-determined...

Fabienne Doucet

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David Kirkland

New York University

Publication

Building Consensus: Idea Brokerage in Teacher Policy Networks

Abstract We show how policy makers converged to support similar reforms on a major educational issue: teacher effectiveness. Our study demonstrates the importance of idea brokers—actors that...

Sara Galey-Horn, Sarah Reckhow, Joseph A. Ferrare and Lorien Jasney

Grant

All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference

This award will support the All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference.

Chris Benner and Steve McKay

University of California, Santa Cruz

2019 – 2022

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Sarah Reckhow

Michigan State University

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Chris Benner

Regents of the University of California, Santa Cruz and University of California, Santa Cruz

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Steve McKay

Regents of the University of California, Santa Cruz and University of California, Santa Cruz

Grant Announcements

Ten Finalists Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Program

We are pleased to announce the finalists for the 2020 William T. Grant Scholars Program. Ten early-career researchers were selected from a pool of 62 applicants after a rigorous review by our staff...

Staff Perspectives

Vivian Tseng on “No Jargon” Podcast, Episode 197: Making Research Matter

Vivian Tseng joins the Scholars Strategy Network No Jargon podcast to talk about how research has traditionally been used to shape education policy in the U.S. and how more recent approaches may pave...

Foundation Staff

Grantee Voices

How School Finance Research Can Sharpen the Debate, Strengthen Policy, and Improve Student Outcomes

New research has the potential not only to shape the school finance debate in years ahead, but improve policies and ultimately reduce inequalities in student opportunities and outcomes.

Robert Kim

11/5/2019

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Robert Kim

Education Law Center and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Grant

Building Teachers’ Race-Related Competencies to Promote Youth Ethnic-Racial Identity and Reduce Academic Inequalities

How might teachers’ abilities to promote adolescents’ ethnic-racial identity development be increased to ultimately reduce academic disparities?

Adriana Umana-Taylor

Harvard University

2019 – 2022

From the Field

Forming and sustaining a research-practice partnership: Lessons from our experience at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Many research-practice partnerships begin when two initially unaffiliated partner organizations decide to pursue collaborative work. Having formed a partnership between our respective offices within...

Lauren Supplee, Charisse Johnson, Seth Chamberlain and Samantha Illangasekare

10/10/2019

Grant Announcements

Five New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas

We are proud to announce four new grants to support research on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and one new grant to support research on improving the use of research evidence. Approved at the...

Applicant Guidance

Social Movement Research to Reduce Inequality for Young People

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...

Jenny Irons and Vivian Tseng

9/19/2019

Publication

“Using Evidence in the U.S.” from What Works Now

In this chapter from What Works Now: Evidence-informed Policy and Practice, Vivian Tseng and Cynthia Coburn delineate the evolution of evidence use in the United States, specifically the ways that...

Vivian Tseng and Cynthia Coburn

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The Long Shadow: Considering How Racism Shapes Justice System Inequality and Efforts to Disrupt it

Geoffrey Raymond

No Small Matters: Reimagining the Use of Research Evidence From A Racial Justice Perspective

Shifting the Lens: Why Conceptualization Matters in Research on Reducing Inequality

Centering the Margins: (Re)defining Useful Research Evidence Through Critical Perspectives

David Kirkland

Building Consensus: Idea Brokerage in Teacher Policy Networks

All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference

Sarah Reckhow

Chris Benner

Steve McKay

Ten Finalists Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Program

Vivian Tseng on “No Jargon” Podcast, Episode 197: Making Research Matter

How School Finance Research Can Sharpen the Debate, Strengthen Policy, and Improve Student Outcomes

Robert Kim

Building Teachers’ Race-Related Competencies to Promote Youth Ethnic-Racial Identity and Reduce Academic Inequalities

Forming and sustaining a research-practice partnership: Lessons from our experience at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Five New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas

Social Movement Research to Reduce Inequality for Young People

“Using Evidence in the U.S.” from What Works Now

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