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Found results All Articles Filters Focus Areas Improving the use of Research Evidence Page About ...Grant program and our focus area of improving the use of research evidence. She also supports grantees in their work and leads... Grant Announcements Six New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas ...outcomes and one study on strategies for improving the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people. Approved at the... Foundation Staff Staff Perspectives President’s Comment: Why We’re Investing in Tools to Advance Community-Engaged Scholarship ...repository of methods and measures for studying the use of research evidence in policy and practice. These investments reflect... Adam Gamoran 10/14/2025 Grant Convening and Catalyzing School Turnaround Through Conceptual Research Use ...performance. Prior research suggests the conceptual use of research evidence may help leaders better understand what challenges... Ebony Bridwell-Mitchell Harvard University 2025 – 2028$249,229.00 Grant Announcements Five New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas ...outcomes and two studies on strategies for improving the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people. Approved at the... Foundation Staff Grant Developing and Examining a Coordinated Knowledge System for Improving the Use of Research Evidence in Clinical Decisions around Cultural Adaptation ...research to improve the frequency and quality of research use in clinical decisions about whether, when, and how... Alayna Park University Of Oregon 2025 – 2029$550,000.00 Around the Foundation Welcoming Alexes Harris to the William T. Grant Scholars Selection Committee ...the areas of reducing inequality and improving the use of research evidence by decision makers. I am honored to work with colleagues... Foundation Staff Grant Announcements Seven New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas ...outcomes and two studies on strategies for improving the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people. These grants will... Foundation Staff Grant Enhancing the Capacity of State Educational Technology Leaders to Use Research Evidence to Translate Policy into Practice ...testing and assess the role of an RPP in improving the use of research evidence and altering state edtech leaders’ social networks.... Beth Holland and Marianne Bakia FullScale 2025 – 2028$569,901.00 Grant Understanding Educational Gender- and Sexual-Diversity Reforms and the Use of Evidence in Politically Divisive Contexts How district leaders use data and research about LGBTQ+ adolescents to initiate... Mollie McQuillan University of Wisconsin, Madison 2025 – 2030$424,957.00 Grant Improving Postsecondary Educational Outcomes for Transition-Age Youth in Foster Care ...completion for transition-age foster youth. They will also use university-level data from across multiple Penn State... Deborah Ehrenthal Pennsylvania State University 2025 – 2028$650,000.00 Grant Announcements Announcing the 2025 Institutional Challenge Grantees: Foundations Award $2.6 Million for Research-Practice Partnerships ...together to embed healing-centered, relationship-focused, equitable approaches to violence interruption, as... Foundation Staff Applicant Guidance Applying to the William T. Grant Scholars Program: Proposing a Study on the Use of Research Evidence ...the Foundation’s primary interests is improving the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the... Foundation Staff Staff Perspectives President’s Comment: Education Renewal at AERA 2025 ...enhance the capacity of both partners to produce and use research evidence, and 4) create institutional change... Adam Gamoran 4/17/2025 Grant Mobilizing Research Evidence in Policy Making ...(KA), to highlight the importance of and elevate the use of education research in federal policymaking. KA... Rachel Dinkes Council for Educational Development and Research 2025 – 2026$100,000.00 Issue 10: Winter 2024-25 Career Development at the Foundation: Keeping Sight of the People Carrying Out the Work ...applications in the Foundation’s focus area on improving the use of research evidence. We periodically review our career development grantmaking... Melissa Wooten Issue 10: Winter 2024-25 Young People as Beneficiaries or Agents of Change ...schools (Kwako et al., 2023) and especially college campuses (Dixon, Tope, & Dyke 2008; Munson, 2010a; Munson,... Jennifer Earl Issue 10: Winter 2024-25 Studying Beneficial Uses of Research Evidence in Higher Education ...outcomes. Yet, we know little about how to improve the use of research evidence by decision-makers in higher education settings as... Kim DuMont Issue 10: Winter 2024-25 Conducting Research on Social Movements to Challenge and Change Youth-Serving Systems ...not decision-makers in an established system, and use some element of non-institutionalized tactics, or... Jenny Irons 1 2 3 ... 11 ... Next Last
