What educational programs, practices, and policies are most influential for raising student achievement among Black and Latinx students in the United States?
What state and federal immigration policies reduce inequalities in immigrant adolescent and young adult reproductive health behaviors, service utilization, and outcomes?
What programs and policies can help low-income families with children move to higher opportunity neighborhoods, and what is the promise of place-based models that provide affordable housing in specific neighborhoods?
How do differences in the implementation of Common Core State Standards across school districts affect mathematics instruction and student achievement?
California and several counties in Ohio are currently undergoing a large, federally funded trial investigating an attempt to implement an evidence-based, statewide foster care program (Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care, or MTFC) with the help of Community Development Teams (CDT).
This award builds on an NIH-funded cluster-randomized trial to test whether providing implementation support through community development teams impacts a county’s decision to adopt the Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care, an evidence-based child welfare program. With this award, Palinkas will...
Erika Patall is Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin. She is interested in the determinants and development of motivation and the relationship between motivation and academic achievement and underachievement.
Lawrence Palinkas is a PI on 2 grants to University of Southern California, a co-PI on 1 grant to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, and a co-PI on 1 grant to Tufts Medical Center; an author on 2 publications; and is mentioned ...
Partnerships between researchers, practitioners, and policymakers represent a promising avenue for improving outcomes for young people and families. In this report, Lawrence Palinkas, Cherry Short, and Marleen Wong of the ...
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.
