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Digest, Issue 10: Winter 2024-25

Career Development at the Foundation: Keeping Sight of the People Carrying Out the Work

The goal may be to fund high-quality research, but we should never lose sight of the people carrying out the work and how securing funding fits within the larger context of their careers.
Melissa Wooten
Career Development at the Foundation: Keeping Sight of the People Carrying Out the Work
Digest, Issue 10: Winter 2024-25

Conducting Research on Social Movements to Challenge and Change Youth-Serving Systems

As we face increasing restrictions on our society’s most vulnerable youth, including youth of color, undocumented and immigrant youth, and LGBTQ+ youth, social movement research holds significant potential to illuminate strategies to transform youth-serving systems and improve youth lives.
Jenny Irons
Conducting Research on Social Movements to Challenge and Change Youth-Serving Systems
Digest, Issue 10: Winter 2024-25

Young People as Beneficiaries or Agents of Change

Research that works to identify youth social movement participation and understand its connection to social movement outcomes has the chance to bring great research gains that may help address some of the most pressing inequalities facing young people today.
Jennifer Earl
Young People as Beneficiaries or Agents of Change
Digest, Issue 10: Winter 2024-25

Studying Beneficial Uses of Research Evidence in Higher Education

Findings from research studies can provide decision-makers direction on how to enhance student mental health; create high-quality, inclusive learning environments; and transition students into and beyond post-secondary settings.
Kim DuMont
Studying Beneficial Uses of Research Evidence in Higher Education

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Issue 08: Winter 2022-23

The eighth issue of the Digest features insights about where new research might help identify ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes after COVID-19, as well as how the fields of implementation science and research on research use might learn from each other in ways that yield more transformative research in years ahead.
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Issue 07: Winter 2021-22

The seventh issue of the Digest includes fresh insights from program staff and grantees on how researchers can successfully confront the challenges of studying causal mechanisms for reducing inequality, as well as how the global community of researchers and funders focused on improving the use of research evidence can continue to break new ground in the years ahead.
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Issue 06: Winter 2020-21

Essays in this issue of the Digest focus on the importance of looking beyond individual action and customary metrics in research on reducing inequality, as well as how strengths-based, race-conscious research can be produced and used to uplift communities of color.
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Issue 05: Winter 2019-20

The fifth issue of the William T. Grant Foundation Digest features insights from program staff and grantees on the importance of looking beneath the surface to consider the underlying factors that create and shape challenges that social scientists seek to address, whether they be related to reducing inequality in youth outcomes or improving the use of research evidence in policy and practice.
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Issue 04: Winter 2018-19

The fourth issue of the William T. Grant Foundation Digest features insights that may point the way toward a more nuanced understanding of evidence use and inspire new and more wide-ranging examinations of ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes.
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Issue 03: Winter 2017-18

The third issue of the William T. Grant Foundation Digest features insights on how research on ability tracking can inform studies to improve the outcomes of English learners, as well as how researchers and school districts can partner to build learning systems based on research evidence.
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Issue 02: Spring 2017

The second issue of the William T. Grant Foundation Digest features writing on research rigor and relevance, as well as the potential for a new research agenda for improving the outcomes of English learners under the Every Student Succeeds Act.
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Issue 01: Summer 2016

The introductory issue of the William T. Grant Foundation Digest features essays and commentary on the value of qualitative and mixed-methods research in reducing inequality and the potential for researcher access to big data to yield useful research evidence.

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