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Digest, Issue 11: Winter 2025-26

Examining The Role of Civil Society Organizations in Reducing Inequality for Immigrant Youth

Research can illuminate the strategies civil society organizations have adopted on behalf of immigrant youth and investigate how these supports can reduce long-term inequality.
Cecilia Menjívar
Examining The Role of Civil Society Organizations in Reducing Inequality for Immigrant Youth
Digest, Issue 11: Winter 2025-26

Safe-Zone Schools and the Pursuit of Equity for Immigrant Youth

At a time when immigrant youth face widening inequities and shifting policy environments, safe-zone schools illustrate how local institutions can protect and advance vulnerable students.
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
 and José R. Bucheli
Safe-Zone Schools and the Pursuit of Equity for Immigrant Youth
Digest, Issue 11: Winter 2025-26

Improving the Use of Research in Court: Toward a Comprehensive Research Agenda

With the courts serving as a space than can reduce or exacerbate youth inequity, studies can illuminate strategies to improve the use of research evidence in the courts to inform youth-related court rulings.
Raquel Muñiz Castro
Improving the Use of Research in Court: Toward a Comprehensive Research Agenda
Digest, Issue 11: Winter 2025-26

Mapping the Course for Testing Strategies to Improve Research Use in Legal Contexts

We need studies to cultivate routine use of high-quality research in legal decision-making, rigorous tests to examine the effectiveness of these strategies, and causal assessments of whether increased research use translate to better youth outcomes eventually.
Anupreet Sidhu
Mapping the Course for Testing Strategies to Improve Research Use in Legal Contexts

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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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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

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