Abstract Focusing on ‘research’ as a key term in debates over U.S. education policy, this article compares the definition of research in the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) with the...
Despite calls for research-based policies, other types of evidence also influence education policy, including personal experience, professional expertise, and normative values. This article focuses...
Experiments that assign intact groups to treatment conditions are increasingly common in social research. In educational research, the groups assigned are often schools. The design of group...
When a school’s principal changes, what are the effects on teacher engagement and student achievement? What factors are associated with a successful transition?
This grant will support the Youth Development Institute to partner with two Youth Service Improvement Grant grantees to research, document, and publish lessons learned as a result of their Foundation...
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.
