How can schools design teacher professional development to incorporate asset-based, culturally relevant approaches to math instruction for Latinx students?
Do school choice plans that prioritize families in underserved neighborhoods reduce educational inequality for low-income students and students of color?
Cauffman will use this award to develop more effective mentoring relationships, promote the goals of young scholars of color, and help them in overcoming the unique challenges they face.
Turney seeks to develop strategies to help students cultivate independent research agendas, and to heighten her capacity for mentoring across difference.
In this mixed-methods study, Simpkins and her colleagues will focus on the role of culture. They will use data about Latino families and the activities that Latino youth participate in.
Investigators will prepare the Promising Practices Rating System (PPRS), an observational measure of process quality in after-school programs developed in our earlier research, so that it can be used more broadly for research and program development purposes.
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.