Will offering increased financial aid to low-income students affect educational outcomes, such as college performance and completion? How will it impact these students’ family and peer relationships?
In order to plan group-level intervention studies, such as school- or classroom-based interventions, researchers must understand the proportion of the variation in a key outcome (such as a state...
ICD’s Youth Employment Services (YES) program combines educational and vocational services with a focus on mental health to help youth ages 16 to 21 with serious emotional disturbances (SED)...
Grace Outreach provides GED preparation, coaching, and mentoring for low-income women in the South Bronx to build their academic skills and help them transition to higher education, vocational...
Through the Teen Leadership Program, Girls Quest works with teenage girls to develop social, academic, and leadership skills. The goal is to prepare them to successfully navigate their challenging...
Among THE POINT’s after-school offerings is the Middle Grades Program, which currently consists of the ICP at the POINT (a photography program) and a more comprehensive program that provides homework...
Friends of the Children NY provides full-time mentors (called “Friends”) to work one-on-one with severely at-risk children from kindergarten through high school.
The New York Asian Women’s Center’s Children’s Program (NYAWC) helps youth recover from trauma related to family violence through individual counseling, support groups, case management/advocacy, and...
Operation Exodus-Inner City operates an after-school program that offers homework help, literacy and math skills development, and recreational activities.
Information on instructional content, taken from teacher logs and ratings of teacher assignment quality, can be used separately to predict differences in student achievement.
Through the Blossom Program for Girls, Youth Empowerment Mission (YEM) offers girls ages 11 to 21 counseling, case management, life skills/leadership development, mentoring, internships, educational...
In LINC’s Teen Tutoring Reading Partner Program, middle and high school students read weekly with elementary school children, building literacy skills and creating opportunities for community...
Can researchers create cost-effective measures to assess how teacher practices are related to student norms regarding academics, or which students are seen by their peers as leaders?
How does parental criminality influence child outcomes? How do attitudes, communications, and everyday parenting practices foster continuities or influence positive changes in youth?
The William T. Grant Foundation invests in high-quality research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States.
