Do institutional responses to truancy reduce racial inequality in truancy, habitual truancy, and related educational outcomes for Black and Latinx students?
What facilitates the use of research evidence by decision makers engaged in public-academic partnerships (PAPs) at different stages of a partnership’s development?
When a school’s principal changes, what are the effects on teacher engagement and student achievement? What factors are associated with a successful transition?
What factors contribute to gender differences in adolescent health risk behaviors (e.g., cigarette, alcohol, and drug use, sexual activity, birth control use)? How can this information be used in intervention programs and policies to reduce engagement in such risky ...
Numerous federal initiatives are increasing the incentives and pressures for state and local education agencies to adopt policies and practices that are grounded in research, yet little is known about how these agencies access, evaluate, or use research findings.
Information on instructional content, taken from teacher logs and ratings of teacher assignment quality, can be used separately to predict differences in student achievement.
Members of the Study Group on Race Culture and Ethnicity will conduct a meta-analytic model to examine the role of culture and context in ethnic differences in parenting and in relations between parenting (including racial socialization) and child outcomes.
These funds support a range of activities, many of which help the field build stronger youth programs. The Forum will continue to organize, staff, and evaluate workshops for grantees from several of the Foundation’s grantmaking programs.
This brief is based on an exploratory study that examined: “1) where state education agency staff search for research, evidence-based, and practitioner knowledge related to school improvement; 2) whether and how state education agency staff use research and these other types of ...
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.
