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A genuine confrontation with racial inequality will require a new way of thinking that challenges the structural roots of racial disadvantage and the consequences of generations of anti-Black discriminatory policies.
A New Agenda for Eliminating Racial Inequality in the United States: The Research We Need
In this essay, Tim Smeeding discusses how new research may aim toward finding policy solutions that disrupt the larger foundations of inequality in the United States in order to improve …
Once More from the Top: Examining Macro-Social Structures of Inequality to Improve Youth Outcomes
In this essay, Kim DuMont urges advocates for evidence-based policy to attend to the evidence on getting evidence used, and calls on researchers to test new models that take into account the social side of evidence use.
Reframing Evidence-Based Policy to Align with the Evidence
Ultimately, with an eye toward the root of the challenge, approaches to reducing inequality at the branch can lead to change in the long run.
Research on reducing inequality: Why programs and practices matter, even in an unequal society
Here, two distinguished researchers and past grantees of the Foundation describe why they chose to study the use of research evidence and how that work has benefitted from and contributed to their respective fields of study.
The Rewards of Studying the Use of Research Evidence

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The Digest

Issue 10: Winter 2024-25

The newest William T. Grant Foundation Digest features an updated look at the the Foundation’s longtime commitment to career development for early-career researchers, as well as new thinking about ways that research on social movements can advance efforts to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. Senior Vice President Kim DuMont also outlines opportunities for studies on improving higher education administrators’ use of research evidence in ways that promote student well-being and success.

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