Blog Posts

Immigrant-origin youth in the United States are being targeted in today’s hostile political climate. But supportive responses exist at multiple levels, from federal, to state, to local, to institutional. Studies that examine such strategies can illuminate those that are ...

When staff present at conferences or talk with interested applicants, we sometimes encounter the misperception that the William T. Grant Foundation funds only quantitative intervention studies. While we do value—and fund—research that tests hypotheses about whether programs, policies, ...

Amid the 2020 racial reckoning following George Floyd’s murder, school districts nationwide ushered in new policies to implement inclusive, antiracist curriculum. In the following years, however, political backlash mounted against these efforts, with dozens of states passing legislation barring...

The Institutional Challenge Grant supports university-based research institutes, schools, and centers in building sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. With this year’s application opening on May...

Evidence-informed policymaking (EIPM) is a critical pathway to more effective policies, programmes, and practices. EIPM is supported through interventions such as capacity-building, evidence platforms, and evidence-to-policy communities of practice. Such efforts to improve the use of research...

Federal actions in the second Trump administration have placed higher education institutions at a critical crossroads as they navigate how best to support undocumented and international students (Streitwieser et al., 2020), ...

I’m looking forward to seeing many of you at the 2026 Meeting of the American Education Research Association. Over the course of the week, staff and grantees of the Foundation will participate in several sessions that I hope you’ll ...

Career development is a cornerstone of the Foundation’s approach to grantmaking. One way we do this is through investing in efforts that foster supportive environments for scholars from groups ...

Photo courtesy of San Francisco Unified School District-UC Berkeley RPP Improving outcomes for students, families, and communities increasingly depends on new forms of collaboration that bring educators, researchers, policymakers, community members, and youth into shared work. Research-practice...

In the face of organized efforts to silence research, the Foundation will continue to leverage our funding to strengthen the field and advance institutional reforms that value community-engaged scholarship.