Do scholarship programs that provide academic and social supports help high-achieving, low-income students enroll in and graduate from flagship colleges?
How do desegregation policies and the resulting changes in school settings affect students’ college enrollment, college persistence, and outcomes after college?
Can a scholarship program offering college tuition subsidies reduce gaps in college enrollment, credits attempted, and post-secondary credentials earned?
How do historical, social, and economic factors within school districts affect their response to receiving a federal citation for racial disproportionality in special education?
Margarita Alegría and colleagues investigate disparities in mental health and mental health services for minority youth. Taking a developmental perspective, the authors explore four areas that may give rise to inequalities in mental health outcomes, highlight specific protective factors ...
The national conversation about disparities in law-enforcement practices in the wake of high profile instances of police–community violence in minority communities has been intense, heated, and often polarizing. And while the topic of race and inequality in the justice ...
Carola Suárez-Orozco and colleagues explore how inequality plays out along six dimensions of disadvantage particular to immigrant-origin families. The authors outline how developments in educational and family contexts can ...
In “The New Forgotten Half and Research Directions to Support Them,” James Rosenbaum and colleagues find that many young people who enroll in community college fail to complete their studies and attain a degree, and that these youth fare no ...
The William T. Grant Foundation invests in high-quality research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States.
