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Reducing Inequality

Awarded Grants

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Understanding the Diversity and Equity of a New Generation of Controlled School Choice Policies

How do school choice policies affect the racial and socioeconomic composition of schools?
Erica Frankenberg
Pennsylvania State University
2015 – 2016
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Generating and Communicating the Most Effective Policy Responses to the Opportunity Gap

Robert Putnam will lead working groups of scholars and practitioners to develop research-informed responses for reducing class gaps in youth opportunities.
Robert Putnam
Harvard University
2014 – 2015
$256,306
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The Coleman Report at 50: Its Legacy and Enduring Value

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1966 Equality of Educational Opportunity Report, now commonly known as the Coleman Report, Johns Hopkins University will assemble leading experts to engage with research and policy questions related to the educational opportunity of the ...
Karl Alexander
Johns Hopkins University
2014 – 2016
$25,000
Grant

Reducing Inequality: What American Scholarship Can Learn from the European Experience

Across Europe and the United States, unequal opportunities for advancement are a major impediment to improving the lives of children and youth. Thomas DiPrete will coordinate a two-day workshop and follow-up project on lessons of the European experience with reducing ...
Thomas DiPrete
Columbia University
2014 – 2016
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SRCD Inaugural Presidential Pre-Conference;Equity and Justice in Developmental Sciences

The Society for Research in Child Development wants to create mechanisms to promote collaborative research that cuts across disciplines, epistemologies, and domains in order to reduce inequality.
Lonnie Sherrod
Society For Research In Child Development
2014 – 2015
$15,600

Articles & More

Blog Post

Q&A with John Laub: Understanding Inequality and the Justice System Response

John H. Laub is Distinguished Professor Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, College Park. From 2010 to 2013, Dr. Laub served as the Director of the National Institute of Justice in the Office of Justice Programs in ...
Foundation Staff
Q&A with John Laub: Understanding Inequality and the Justice System Response
Blog Post

Understanding Inequality and the Justice System Response: Charting a New Way Forward

What do we know about inequality in the justice system? What can researchers do about it? John Laub, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland and former Director of the National Institute ...
John Laub
Understanding Inequality and the Justice System Response: Charting a New Way Forward
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Changing the Conversation About Inequality—The First Step: Writing the Letter of Inquiry

I’d like to share advice with potential applicants about developing a letter of inquiry for our reducing inequality focus area, the critical first step in the grant application process. How can applicants persuade reviewers of their projects’ potential to ...
Vivian Louie
Changing the Conversation About Inequality—The First Step: Writing the Letter of Inquiry
Blog Post

Building Knowledge for Social Justice

My recent six-year stint at the Ford Foundation gave me a chance to support and co-lead a very ambitious project that convened dozens of esteemed scholars, media professionals, and activists to study how scholarly knowledge could confront and help remedy ...
Jeannie Oakes
Building Knowledge for Social Justice
Blog Post

Inequality Matters: Framing a Strategic Inequality Research Agenda

We believe that improved inequality scholarship should be one component of efforts to improve young people’s opportunities.
Prudence Carter
 and Sean Reardon
Inequality Matters: Framing a Strategic Inequality Research Agenda

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