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Reducing Inequality

Awarded Grants

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An Educational Game to Support Multilingual Learners’ Reading Comprehension and Science Learning

How can a game-based learning environment improve 5th grade Spanish-speaking students’ science learning?
John Nietfeld
North Carolina State University
2025 – 2027
$599,413
Grant

2025 Annual Membership

This grant supports the Foundation’s 2025 membership in the Council on Foundations.
Kathleen Enright
Council On Foundations
2025 – 2025
$19,000
Grant

Measuring the Role of Racial Literacy in Promoting Equitable Reading Instruction through the 3Rs

How can racial literacy be developed and measured, and how is it associated with culturally informed teaching practices and student reading outcomes?
Caitlin Spear
University Of Pittsburgh
2024 – 2027
$648,527
Grant

Fostering Belonging in School for Black and Latinx Students: The Pathway from Teachers’ Professional Learning on Asset-based Pedagogy to Students’ Social-Emotional Experiences

How does teachers’ professional learning about asset-based pedagogy shape Black and Latinx students’ belonging and academic development in different district contexts?
Shanette Porter
The University Of Chicago
2024 – 2027
$399,996
Grant

Transformative Justice in Schools: Unraveling the Impacts of Restorative Practices on Youth Outcomes and Inequality

Do restorative justice practices reduce racial inequalities in graduation, criminal justice system involvement, and post-secondary outcomes, and if so, how?
Anjali Adukia
The University Of Chicago
2024 – 2027
$541,730

Articles & More

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

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
Blog Post

Reimagining Criminal Justice to Uplift Urban Communities: A Conversation on the Rikers Island Longitudinal Study

“People should not come out of [Rikers] more harmed than they were when they went in,” Bruce Western, a professor of sociology at Columbia University and the incoming president of ...
Natalie De Rosa
Reimagining Criminal Justice to Uplift Urban Communities: A Conversation on the Rikers Island Longitudinal Study
Blog Post

“A little bit of cash may help”: Grantees pilot nation’s largest guaranteed income program for child welfare system-involved families

Is poverty a root cause of child welfare system involvement? Researchers have long held this hypothesis, but rarely had an opportunity to test whether giving cash to poor families reduces ...
Natalie De Rosa
“A little bit of cash may help”: Grantees pilot nation’s largest guaranteed income program for child welfare system-involved families
Blog Post

Reducing Segregation in New York City: Examining the Effects of Two District Policies on School Integration

Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Education, many U.S. school districts remain divided by race and class. Segregation is often particularly prevalent in large, urban school districts like ...
Amanda Schmidt
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Talia Gerstle
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and Clemence Idoux
Reducing Segregation in New York City: Examining the Effects of Two District Policies on School Integration

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