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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
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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
Digest, Issue 8: Winter 2022-23

Emergency Exits: Avenues for New Research to Improve Youth Outcomes After COVID

As the effects of COVID linger on, researchers have a crucial role to play in cataloging them. Even more important, by developing knowledge about exactly who is affected and how, researchers can provide evidence that points the way toward successful ...
Anya Kamenetz
Emergency Exits: Avenues for New Research to Improve Youth Outcomes After COVID
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A Global Movement for Engaged Research

It’s one thing to know how research is used in policy and practice—to understand the conditions that enable thoughtful deliberation and sense-making of the evidence and the infrastructure that supports those conditions. It’s another thing altogether to ...
Vivian Tseng
 and Angela Bednarek
A Global Movement for Engaged Research
Digest, Issue 7: Winter 2021-22

Research on Research Use: Building Theory, Empirical Evidence, and a Global Field

Research can play a vital role in pointing policymakers, civil society, and communities toward a stronger, more sustainable, and just world. But getting there means building on what we know about what it takes for research to be useful, used, ...
Research on Research Use: Building Theory, Empirical Evidence, and a Global Field
Digest, Issue 7: Winter 2021-22

Contending with Complexity: How Two Grantees are Approaching Studies of Mechanisms

Former William T. Grant Scholar Mesmin Destin is an associate professor at Northwestern University in the Department of Psychology and the School of Education & Social Policy. Rob Smith is a research grantee and professor of sociology, immigration studies, and public ...
Contending with Complexity: How Two Grantees are Approaching Studies of Mechanisms
Digest, Issue 7: Winter 2021-22

Opening the Black Box: Overcoming Obstacles to Studying Causal Mechanisms in Research on Reducing Inequality

Although many of today’s disparities have their roots in policies or actions initiated generations ago, there is much we can do today. And new research on causal mechanisms can ...
Opening the Black Box: Overcoming Obstacles to Studying Causal Mechanisms in Research on Reducing Inequality
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