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Awarded Grants

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Family First Act Policy Research

How have states have begun to exercise the flexibility afforded by Family First Preventative Services Act and what evidence might become available in the future to assess the impact of the legislation?
Harold Briggs
University Of Georgia
2020 – 2024
$50,000
Grant

Understanding and Intervening on Inequities in Chronic Absenteeism and its Consequences among High School Students

The University of California, Berkeley, and the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) will pursue a research agenda to reduce inequalities in chronic absenteeism, and, in turn, academic difficulties and school dropout.
Emily Ozer
University Of California At Berkeley
2020 – 2025
$687,487
Grant

The impact of upstream prevention of homelessness on youth educational and developmental outcomes

Boston College of Social Work and the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley will address homelessness for youth and families.
Gautam Yadama
Boston College
2020 – 2026
$677,615
Grant

NPR’s Collaborative Journalism Network

This award will support National Public Radio Collaborative Journalism Network, an effort to enhance capacity to report on issues affecting children, youth, and families within disadvantaged communities in high-need regions.
Blair Gage
National Public Radio
2020 – 2021
$25,000

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Blog Post

No One-Size-Fits-All: A Context-Sensitive Approach to Research-Practice Partnership Health and Effectiveness

Introduction Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) involve long-term partnerships aimed at improving or transforming a wide-range of outcomes through collaboration and research inquiry across a diversity of partner groups. As RPPs proliferate, ...
The National Center for Research in Policy and Practice
 and The National Network of Education Research-Practice Partnerships
No One-Size-Fits-All: A Context-Sensitive Approach to Research-Practice Partnership Health and Effectiveness
Blog Post

Learning by Doing Together: Improving Education Policy in Puerto Rico through a Research-Practice Partnership

Puerto Rico’s public school system was facing a daunting process of reconstruction even before the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2017, the devastating force of Hurricane María destabilized the entirety ...
Gustavo Bobonis
,
Emily Goldman
,
Orlando Sotomayor
,
and Damarys Varela-Vélez
Learning by Doing Together: Improving Education Policy in Puerto Rico through a Research-Practice Partnership
Blog Post

Tips for Researchers: Navigating the Gaps Between Research and Policy

Local policymakers often lack rigorous data and analysis about which programs are most effective. But too often academics do not apply their knowledge to the most pressing policy issues in these local contexts. This creates a “valley of death” between ...
Alicia Modestino
Tips for Researchers: Navigating the Gaps Between Research and Policy
Blog Post

How Universities Can Support Faculty of Color to Engage with Policymakers and Practitioners

Some of the most impactful contributions universities make to society stem from faculty members’ external engagement—i.e., researcher engagement with policymakers and practitioners. A faculty member’s meeting with ...
Denisa Gandara
 and Victoria Kim
Blog Post

The How and Why Behind Funders’ Decisions

Funders shape what research is conducted on which questions. Funders can also support the infrastructure that is vital to engagement between policymakers and researchers. And while the grants funders make are public knowledge and have received attention in the literature, ...
Vivian Tseng
Blog Post

Avoiding Confirmation Bias When Implementing Evidence-Based Instructional Practices

If we hope to train practitioners to use new interventions with fidelity, it may be necessary to first explicitly differentiate between previous and new instructional practices.
Barbara Davidson
,
Julie Greenberg
,
and Susan Pimentel

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