January 2026 - William T. Grant Foundation

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Proposal to Complete the Archiving of Beginning School Study Data with the Murray Research Center

This funding completes the archiving of the Beginning Schools Survey data archived at Harvard’s Murray Research Center, a data archive and lending library for research projects focused on youth...

Karl Alexander

Johns Hopkins University

2013 – 2014
$17,500.00

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Service Grant Program

As an extension of the Foundation’s Youth Service Improvement Grants program, this small grant provides capacity-building support to youth-serving organizations in our local community.

Robert Acton

The Taproot Foundation

2013 – 2014
$25,000.00

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Fighting for Reliable Evidence: The Next Challenge

Funds will be used for Judith Gueron’s speaking and writing engagements for foundation leaders, federal agency and congressional staff, research and policy organizations, and academics in public...

Judith Gueron

MDRC

2013 – 2017
$17,250.00

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Elizabeth Gershoff

Society for Research in Child Development and University of Texas at Austin

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Desiree Qin

Michigan State University and Society for Research on Adolescence

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Lyn Pentecost

The Lower eastside Girls club and The Lower Eastside Girls Club of NY

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Aletha Huston

Society for Research in Child Development and University of Texas at Austin

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Learning More About How Research-Based Knowledge Gets Used: Guidance in the Development of New Empirical Research

In this paper, Davies and Nutley provide a primer for those unfamiliar with prior work and conceptual frameworks for understanding the use of research in policy and practice. They critique the...

Sandra Newman and Huw T.O. Davies

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Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children’s Life Chances

Published by the Russell Sage Foundation, "this pioneering volume casts a stark light on the ways rising inequality may now be compromising schools’ functioning, and with it the promise of equal...

Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane

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Huw T.O. Davies

University of St. Andrews

Staff Perspectives

Partnerships: Shifting the Dynamics Between Research and Practice

In this brief essay, Vivian Tseng introduces the Foundation's learning community of research-practice partnerships, writing, "Successful partnerships enable researchers to develop stronger knowledge...

Vivian Tseng

Grantee Voices

A Conceptual Framework for Studying the Sources of Variation in Program Effects

Evaluations of public programs in many fields reveal that (1) different types of programs (or different versions of the same program) vary in their effectiveness, (2) a program that is effective for...

Michael Weiss, Howard Bloom and Thomas Brock

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Adolescents and the Social Contexts of American Schools

How does the social and academic climate of schools influence adolescents' development and well-being?

Aprile Benner

University of Texas at Austin

2013 – 2020
$350,000.00

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Proposal to Complete the Archiving of Beginning School Study Data with the Murray Research Center

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Fighting for Reliable Evidence: The Next Challenge

Richard Correnti

Allison Tracy

Robert Acton

Judith Gueron

Elizabeth Gershoff

Desiree Qin

Margarita Rosa

Lyn Pentecost

Stephanie Cuskley

Zahid Kisa

Aletha Huston

Learning More About How Research-Based Knowledge Gets Used: Guidance in the Development of New Empirical Research

Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children’s Life Chances

Huw T.O. Davies

Partnerships: Shifting the Dynamics Between Research and Practice

A Conceptual Framework for Studying the Sources of Variation in Program Effects

Adolescents and the Social Contexts of American Schools

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