Does a professional convening intervention catalyze conditions to improve conceptual use of research evidence and research epistemology among turnaround school leaders?
This grant will support Ciocca Eller’s work advancing equity and scientific integrity at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy through a cross-agency Equitable Data Working Group and other means.
What are the effects of having a parent who works a low-wage job with an unstable and unpredictable work schedule on child health and well-being? Are policies designed to reduce work schedule instability and unpredictability effective?
Are litigation and agency enforcement of civil rights protections in schools effective in reducing homophobic bullying? If so, why are they effective, and for which schools?
Nancy Hill, a professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, will use this Distinguished Fellows award to immerse herself in the operations of Massachusetts’s Executive Office of Education and the Child and Youth Readiness Cabinet.
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.
Hirokazu Yoshikawa is a PI on 2 grants to New York University and a co-PI on 1 grant to Boston College; an author on 1 publication; and is mentioned in 1 news article.
Daniel Schneider is a Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. As Co-Director of The Shift Project, his current research focuses on how precarious and unpredictable work schedules affects household economic security and worker and family health and ...
Bruce Western is a sociology professor, the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy, director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, and faculty chair of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy ...
Jonathan Guryan is a PI on 1 grant to Northwestern University, a co-PI on 1 grant to Harvard University, and a co-PI on 1 grant to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.
Brian Jacob is a PI on 1 grant to Harvard University, a co-PI on 1 grant to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, and a co-PI on 1 grant to Stanford University.
Stephanie Jones is a co-PI on 1 grant to Strategic Education Research Partnership, a co-PI on 1 grant to Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility Inc, and a co-PI on 1 grant to Fordham University.
Learning how particular government policies affect families requires well-designed and well-coordinated mixed-methods research that pays attention to a variety of indicators of success.
When we zero in on knowledge-based competencies, we find that language and knowledge are two sides of the same coin—ideas and concepts can’t be separated from the language used to represent them.
How can research to improve the lives of youth in the United States also benefit the other 95 percent of the world’s youth? Questions like this highlight the urgency of bringing the highest levels of rigor to relevant research.
In 1899, Jane Addams, Lucy Flower, and Julia Lathrop, three women from Chicago’s South Side, founded the world’s first family court. The court was part of a broad progressive ...
Published by Harvard Education Press and the Russell Sage Foundation, “Restoring Opportunity lays out a meticulously researched case for how targeted interventions and support can significantly level the playing field between low-income children and their more fortunate peers.”
Technological advances and globalization have transformed the American economy over the past four decades, posing enormous challenges for America’s public schools. The advanced skills needed to earn a good living in today’s labor market have placed greater demands ...
Published by the Russell Sage Foundation, “this pioneering volume casts a stark light on the ways rising inequality may now be compromising schools’ functioning, and with it the promise of equal opportunity in America.”
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.
