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Digest, Issue 9: Winter 2023-24

Studying the use of research evidence: In conversation with Program Officer Anupreet Sidhu

“I think all researchers who produce research to improve youth outcomes should think about the ways that their research can be taken up and used. Who are these findings meant for and who are the decision-makers that would benefit from ...
Lenore Neier
Studying the use of research evidence: In conversation with Program Officer Anupreet Sidhu
Digest, Issue 9: Winter 2023-24

Sustainable change: Reflections on the inaugural Institutional Challenge Grant

“As our grant comes to a close, we are reflecting on the evolution of our research-practice partnership and our plans for the future. We have launched efforts to broaden our networks of engaged researchers and research-informed practitioners within our respective ...
Laura Tach
 and Anna Steinkraus
Sustainable change: Reflections on the inaugural Institutional Challenge Grant
Digest, Issue 9: Winter 2023-24

Interview with an Institutional Challenge Grantee: How can you support community-engaged scholarship within an academic discipline?

“Collaborating with our partners, we’ve crafted a vision of the world where marginalized and disadvantaged members of society feel seen, heard, understood, and prioritized.”
Foundation Staff
Interview with an Institutional Challenge Grantee: How can you support community-engaged scholarship within an academic discipline?
Digest, Issue 9: Winter 2023-24

Doing better by children: Studying ways to fully leverage ideas and findings from research

“Research can contribute to better child outcomes, but waiting for ideas and findings from research to make their way onto the desks of decision-makers is a flawed approach. We need strategies that intentionally nurture conditions that support the use of ...
Kim DuMont
Doing better by children: Studying ways to fully leverage ideas and findings from research
Digest, Issue 9: Winter 2023-24

Community-engaged research to reduce inequality: The Institutional Challenge Grant

“Our goal as a grantmaker is not merely to fund high-quality research studies, but to shape the environment for research and its relationship to policy and practice. The Institutional Challenge Grant is central to this strategy.”
Institutional Challenge Grant Task Force
 and Adam Gamoran
Community-engaged research to reduce inequality: The Institutional Challenge Grant
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Theorizing Blackness, Indigeneity, and Racialization in Research on Reducing Inequality

The William T. Grant Foundation encourages research on reducing inequality that is grounded in well-theorized, rich conceptualizations of race, ethnicity, and Indigeneity (as well as other dimensions of inequality like immigrant origin and economic standing). In keeping with this interest, ...
Foundation Staff
Theorizing Blackness, Indigeneity, and Racialization in Research on Reducing Inequality
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Engaging Lived Expertise in Child Welfare Research

Research is core to the William T. Grant Foundation, as is the use of the knowledge that results from high-quality, community-based empirical investigations. We are committed to funding the study of 1) programs, policies, and practices to reduce inequalities in the ...
Kim DuMont
Engaging Lived Expertise in Child Welfare Research
Digest, Issue 8: Winter 2022-23

Learning Across Contexts: Bringing Together Research on Research Use and Implementation Science

The fields of implementation science and the study of research use in policy and practice travel on many of the same roads and share similar goals, chief among which is ...
Lauren Supplee
,
Allison Metz
,
and Annette Boaz
Learning Across Contexts: Bringing Together Research on Research Use and Implementation Science
Digest, Issue 8: Winter 2022-23

Reducing Educational Inequality After the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Do We Know, and What Research Do We Need?

Today, as the pandemic recedes, its effects are still with us, in education as well as in other domains. We have considerable knowledge about how to respond to growing inequality, ...
Adam Gamoran
 and Richard Murnane
Reducing Educational Inequality After the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Do We Know, and What Research Do We Need?
Digest, Issue 8: Winter 2022-23

Building Evidence Systems to Integrate Implementation Research and Practice in Education

Whether framed as a problem of practice or research use, understanding implementation is critical for identifying and redressing the inequitable distribution of resources, facilitators, and barriers in our systems, which give rise to disparities in student outcomes.
Norma Ming
Building Evidence Systems to Integrate Implementation Research and Practice in Education

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