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Racial Equity in Discipline for Black Students

Can an intervention that cultivates elementary school teachers’ critical race consciousness and empathy for Black students reduce the racial discipline gap?

Dorinda Carter Andrews

Michigan State University

2021 – 2024
$767,186

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Reducing Youth Mental Health Inequalities through Peer Practices: A Daily Diary Study of Ethnic/Racial Peer Interactions

How can peer interactions improve mental health disparities in ethnic and racial minority youth?

Yijie Wang

Michigan State University

2018 – 2020
$50,000

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The Makerspace Movement: Sites of Possibilities for Equitable Opportunities to Engage STEM among Underrepresented Youth

Dr. Calabrese Barton is a professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. She is a recognized leader in science education and for the last 19 years has studied informal learning environments as a mechanism for breaking down ...

Angela Calabrese Barton

Michigan State University

2016 – 2017
$199,512

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Financing the Policy Discourse: How Advocacy Research Funded by Private Foundations Shapes the Debate on Teacher Quality

How does foundation-funded research influence policies about teacher quality?

Sarah Reckhow

Michigan State University

2015 – 2018
$277,895

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Intermediaries’ Role in Transferring Research Evidence from “Producers” to “Consumers”: The Case of School-Based Programs

Who do school districts look to for research evidence on instructional, health, and social programs?

Jennifer Neal

Michigan State University

2014 – 2018
$540,126

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How Beginning Elementary Teachers’ Social Networks Affect Ambitious Math Instruction in the Current Evaluation Climate

How do new teachers’ colleagues influence their lesson planning and math instruction?

kenneth Frank

Michigan State University

2014 – 2019
$599,996

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Amici and the Courts: A Case Study of the Research Use Process of Intermediary Actors

How do changes in social networks and available evidence affect the acquisition, interpretation, and use of research evidence when developing amicus curiae briefs

Patricia Marin

Michigan State University

2014 – 2017
$423,512

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Exploring School Administrators’ Acquisition/Use of Research Evidence About Instructional, Health, and Social Skills Programs

How do districts acquire research on school-based programming, and how does this vary across districts and among district personnel?

Jennifer Neal

Michigan State University

2013 – 2014
$24,998

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The Achievement/Adjustment Paradox: Understanding Psychological Adjustment of High-Achieving Chinese American High School Students

Research on Asian American children presents an interesting paradox: while they tend to do well academically, they tend to adjust poorly psychologically.

Desiree Qin

Michigan State University

2006 – 2011
$41,000

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Angela Calabrese Barton

Angela Calabrese Barton is a PI on 1 grant to Michigan State University and a co-PI on 1 grant to University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is an author on 1 blog post.

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Matthew Diemer

Matthew Diemer is a co-PI on 2 grants to New York University and is an author on 1 publication.

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kenneth Frank

kenneth Frank is a PI on 1 grant and a co-PI on 1 grant to Michigan State University.

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Chezare Warren

Chezare Warren is a co-PI on 1 grant to Michigan State University.

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Dorinda Carter Andrews

Dorinda Carter Andrews is a PI on 1 grant to Michigan State University.

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Ken Frank

Ken Frank is a co-PI on 2 grants to Michigan State University.

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Sarah Reckhow

Sarah Reckhow is a PI on 1 grant to Michigan State University and is an author on 1 publication.

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Jennifer Neal

Jennifer Neal is a PI on 2 grants to Michigan State University and is an author on 2 blog posts.

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Zachary Neal

Zachary Neal is a co-PI on 2 grants to Michigan State University and is an author on 2 blog posts.

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Yijie Wang

Yijie Wang is a PI on 1 grant to Michigan State University.

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Scott Imberman

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Megan Tompkins-Stange

Megan Tompkins-Stange is a co-PI on 1 grant to Michigan State University.

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Peter Youngs

Peter Youngs is a co-PI on 1 grant to Michigan State University.

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Patricia Marin

Patricia Marin is a PI on 1 grant to Michigan State University.

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Catherine Horn

Catherine Horn is a co-PI on 1 grant to Michigan State University.

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Liliana Garces

Liliana Garces is a co-PI on 1 grant to Michigan State University.

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Karen Miksch

Karen Miksch is a co-PI on 1 grant to Michigan State University.

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Kristen Bieda

Kristen Bieda is a co-PI on 1 grant to Michigan State University.

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Serena Salloum

Serena Salloum is a co-PI on 1 grant to Michigan State University.

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Desiree Qin

Desiree Qin is a PI on 1 grant to Michigan State University, a co-PI on 1 grant to University of Texas at Austin, and a co-PI on 1 grant to Society for Research on Adolescence.

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Laurie Van Egeren

Laurie Van Egeren is a co-PI on 1 grant to The Forum for Youth Investment.

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Measuring Research Use and The Promise of Big Data

Big-data can provide a means of measuring research use that provides significant insights with a favorable balance of costs and benefits.

Jennifer Neal

and Zachary Neal

Measuring Research Use and The Promise of Big Data

Blog Post

What Makes a Broker a Broker?

Recognizing that structure and function are complementary ways of understanding brokerage will be important to facilitating the use of research evidence.

Jennifer Neal

and Zachary Neal

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Leveraging RPPs to Address Racial Inequality in Urban School Districts

While RPPs have been defined in the literature as having five characteristics, the authors suggest that RPPS in urban school districts may benefit from a sixth feature: mechanisms for recognizing systemic racism.

Angela Calabrese Barton

and Bronwyn Bevan

Leveraging RPPs to Address Racial Inequality in Urban School Districts

Blog Post

Brokering the Research-Practice Gap: A Typology

Abstract Despite widespread recognition of a research-practice gap in multiple service sectors, less is known about how pre-existing communication channels facilitate the flow of information between researchers and practitioners. In the current study, we applied an existing typology of brokerage ...

and Jennifer A. Lawlor

Brokering the Research-Practice Gap: A Typology

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Best Practices in Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Class in Psychological Research

“An extensive body of research has documented the relation between social class, as indexed by socioeconomic status (SES) and subjective social status (SSS), and a host of outcomes, including physical and mental health, academic achievement, and educational attainment. Yet, there ...

Matthew Diemer

Rashmita Mistry

Martha E. Wadsworth

and Irene Lopez

Michigan State University

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