Understanding Youth Social Settings

How does financial aid affect the lives of low-income college students?

How do intensive policing practices affect adolescent boys’ anti-social behaviors? Do these policies differ across racial lines?

The over-representation of African-American youth among those disciplined with out-of-school suspension and expulsion is a major issue in educational equity.

Developed by the National Institute on Out-of-School Time at the Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College, the Afterschool Program Practices Tool (APT) is an instrument designed to examine particular aspects of after-school program quality that research suggests contribute to desired ...

Can reducing class size during the early grades lead to improved educational outcomes, higher incomes, and better health in adulthood?

Drs. Raudenbush and Bloom will use this grant to continue guiding researchers on how to design group randomized studies.

Started in 1938 as the first William T. Grant Foundation-funded research project, The Study of Adult Development is one of the longest and richest longitudinal studies of human development ever conducted.

Does an intensive, academically-oriented after-school and summer program for low-income, urban youth have positive long-term outcomes on academic engagement, performance, and the selection of and admission to competitive high schools?

For the past 15 years, MDRC has been conducting a random-assignment evaluation of Career Academies, a secondary education model in which schools structure their curricula and student opportunities around career themes.

The Forum for Youth Investment will use this award to maintain and enhance their capacity-building assistance to the Foundation.