Funds were given to document Harlem Children’s Zone’s (HCZ) efforts to strengthen the capacities of families and communities to support the academic and personal development of children and youth.
Investigators will prepare the Promising Practices Rating System (PPRS), an observational measure of process quality in after-school programs developed in our earlier research, so that it can be used more broadly for research and program development purposes.
School district administrators are responsible for making important decisions about instructional policy, such as the evaluation of teacher performance, designing professional development for teachers, and adoption and use of student assessments.
Numerous federal initiatives are increasing the incentives and pressures for state and local education agencies to adopt policies and practices that are grounded in research, yet little is known about how these agencies access, evaluate, or use research findings.
What factors contribute to gender differences in adolescent health risk behaviors (e.g., cigarette, alcohol, and drug use, sexual activity, birth control use)? How can this information be used in intervention programs and policies to reduce engagement in such risky ...
Although research on effective child and adolescent mental health interventions has grown significantly over the past two decades, public mental health care systems have been slow to draw on this ...
The common standards movement, which seeks to establish similar academic standards across multiple states, is rapidly gaining traction—the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers have developed a set of core standards and the U....
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.
