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Brown University

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Increasing Teacher Diversity, Supply, and Retention through Grow Your Own Programs

Are programs that recruit local teachers from underrepresented backgrounds an effective way to build and retain teacher diversity and serve students of color?
Matthew Kraft
Brown University
2023 – 2026
$525,000
Grant

Identifying Pathways to Employment for College Students

Does increased engagement with university career centers improve labor market outcomes among first-generation or students from low-income families attending elite universities?
Neil Thakral
Brown University
2022 – 2025
$417,950
Grant

Reducing COVID-19 Learning Loss through Tutoring: A Meta-Analytic and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Which tutoring programs and practices are most effective at supporting students of color and students from low-income families? v
Matthew Kraft
Brown University
2020 – 2021
$40,000
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2018 Kraft West – Revised

Kraft will use this award to develop his ability to mentor junior scholars, help junior scholars make strategic choices between multiple research opportunities, and gain a stronger sense of the career development issues facing junior colleagues of color.
Matthew Kraft
Brown University
2018 – 2022
$51,285.26
Grant

Teacher Effects on Students’ Non-Cognitive Competencies: A Study of Impacts, Instruction, and Improvement

What teaching practices support the development of students’ non-cognitive competencies? Can a coaching program help teachers to strengthen these practices?
Matthew Kraft
Brown University
2015 – 2020
$350,000
Grant

Designing, Implementing, and Validating the Next Generation of Teacher Evaluation Systems

In this Distinguished Fellowship, Dr.Tyler will observe and participate in the creation of a new state-developed educator evaluation system in Rhode Island.
John Tyler
Brown University
2010 – 2013
$195,474
Grant

Documenting and Understanding the Emergence of the Immigrant Paradox in Childhood and Adolescence

This study aimed to better understand this phenomenon by identifying the associated family, peer group, school, and neighborhood structures and processes.
Cynthia Garcia Coll
Brown University
2006 – 2010
$350,000
Grant

The School-to-Work Transition for Adolescents with Disabilities

What factors predict how well youth with disabilities will do after high school?
Dennis Hogan
Brown University
2004 – 2006
$179,088

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Matthew Kraft

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Neil Thakral

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Beth Schueler is a co-PI on 1 grant to Brown University.
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Jayanti Owens

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Sara McAlister

Sara McAlister is a co-PI on 1 grant to New York University.
Sara McAlister
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Susan Moffitt

Susan Moffitt is a co-PI on 1 grant to University of Michigan.
Susan Moffitt
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John Tyler

John Tyler is a PI on 1 grant to Brown University.
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Amy Marks

Amy Marks is a co-PI on 1 grant to Brown University.
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Cynthia Garcia Coll

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Dennis Hogan

Dennis Hogan is a PI on 1 grant to Brown University.
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  •  May 1, 2020

Five Early-Career Researchers Selected for the 2020 William T. Grant Scholars Program

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 William T. Grant Scholars awards. Launched in 1982, the Scholars Program supports the professional development of promising researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences who have received their terminal degrees within ...
Boston University School of Public Health
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Brown University
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Regents of the University of California, Berkeley
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University of Chicago
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and University of Texas at Austin
Five Early-Career Researchers Selected for the 2020 William T. Grant Scholars Program

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