This grant will fund three Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Congressional Fellows over the next three years, all of whom will be scholars interested in youth issues and with a background in psychology, human development, education, or a ...
Most English-language learners (ELLs) are taught in all-English language classrooms, and we know very little about what features of those classrooms are associated with higher levels of ELL achievement.
What role do the social climates of classrooms and non-instructional settings (e.g., lunchrooms, playgrounds, and hallways) play in predicting youth risk behaviors and outcomes?
The team that developed CLASS will use this grant to develop easy-to-administer tools that assess teacher-student interactions using student and informant (principal/supervisor) surveys.
Getting Out and Staying Out (GO&SO) will use this award to improve and upgrade the database that tracks the activities of their formerly incarcerated clients who utilize their New York City office.
New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NYSPCC) will use this award to improve its Trauma Recovery Program, which provides mental health services to youth who have experienced abuse, violence or neglect.
Groundswell will use this award to train their teaching artists to better identify and appropriately address the disruptive behavior of some of the program participants.
Rockaway Artists Alliance will use this award to improve and update services offered to children with special needs who attend the KidsmArt After-School program.
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.
