How do district and school staff acquire, interpret, and use research evidence to reform schools designated as in need of “corrective action” by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)?
What features of adolescents’ neighborhoods, families, and peer groups trigger early substance use? How can contextual triggers of early substance use be targeted to promote healthy development during the transition to middle school?
Support was given to chronicle the ten-year history of state funding for after-school programs in California, with particular emphasis on the events preceding the Proposition 49 campaign.
Hill and her research team have been developing a video observation protocol that assesses the teaching of mathematics, and they will use this grant to make it more user-friendly, reliable, and accurate.
The investigators are engaged in a large workplace intervention study designed to promote employees’ experiences of control over work time in the context of supervisor support. Parents’ and youth’s ...
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.
