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?
I have a Dream Foundation – New York (IHDF) will use this award to strengthen the college preparation section of their program, which serves youth who live in under-resourced areas of the tri-state region.
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.
Support was given to expand the reach of the Policy Institute’s Family Impact Seminars. Institute staff will provide further training to improve the capacity, skills, and effectiveness of the Family Impact Seminars that already exist in other states.
American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) will provide information to national policymakers—including six Capitol Hill forums—about research on effective strategies to improve the quality of youth-serving programs.
Salem will use his Distinguished Fellows award to become a more effective consumer of research in order to systematically integrate social science research into the family law community and facilitate ...
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.
