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Research Grants

Awarded Grants

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Position and Power: Relational and Resource Inequality in America

How do ideas about what constitutes inequality shape policies designed to respond to inequality?
Richard Reeves
The Brookings Institution
2016 – 2017
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Under Construction: Rise, Spread, & Consequences of Common Core State Standards Initiative in the U.S. Education Sector

How has the spread of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) changed relationships among organizations in the K–12 education sector, and what consequences are evident for teaching, learning, and achievement ...
Brian Rowan
University Of Michigan
2016 – 2020
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The Connection Project: A Social Intervention to Reduce Drivers of Disparity for Disadvantaged Youth

Does a school-based intervention to enhance students’ social support reduce racial and socioeconomic inequalities in academic, behavioral, and health outcomes?
Joseph Allen
University Of Virginia
2016 – 2020
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Increasing the Reach of Promising Dropout Prevention Programs: Examining the Tradeoffs between Scale and Effectiveness

How can promising education interventions be delivered at scale?
Jens Ludwig
Chapin Hall Center For Children
2016 – 2020
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Mixed-methods Study of Organizational Supports used by Private Child Welfare Agencies to Facilitate Evidence Use

What organizational supports facilitate research evidence use in private child welfare agencies?
Emmeline Chuang
University Of California, Los Angeles
2016 – 2019
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Subsidized Housing and Children’s School Outcomes: Evidence from Housing Lotteries

Does moving into newly constructed, place-based subsidized housing improve the educational experiences and outcomes of near-poor children?
Ingrid Ellen
New York University
2016 – 2021
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Disadvantaged Students and High School Counselors: Institutional Barriers to Academic and College Advising

How do daily demands, administrator expectations, and professional training shape school counselors’ time and college advising practices?
William Carbonaro
University Of Notre Dame
2016 – 2017
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The Color of Emotion: Teachers’ Racialized Interpretations of Children’s Emotion and Student Outcomes

Do teachers’ racial biases and racialized interpretations of young children’s emotions and misbehaviors lead to differential treatment of students by race?
Amy Halberstadt
North Carolina State University
2016 – 2019

Articles & More

Blog Post

Studying the Use of Research Evidence: New Directions

Understanding the problem of research use is not enough. As we embark on the next phase of this initiative, we want to support studies of how to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth.
Kim DuMont
Studying the Use of Research Evidence: New Directions
Publication

Research–Practice Partnerships in Education Outcomes, Dynamics, and Open Questions

Policymakers, funders, and researchers today view research–practice partnerships (RPPs) as a promising approach for expanding the role of research in improving educational practice. Although studies in other fields provide evidence of the potential for RPPs, studies in education are ...
Cynthia Coburn
 and William Penuel
Research–Practice Partnerships in Education Outcomes, Dynamics, and Open Questions

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