Research Grants

To support a project that will examine the degree, if any, of affirmative action for men in selective college admissions.

Funds to identify a school district to include in a randomized study of Making Meaning Reading Comprehension program.

What predicts what children understand about the everyday economic world? What is the role of children’s family and community-related experience in the development of their economic understanding?

To contribute to a special investment fund that would support talented and promising scholars as they undertake path-breaking work on research methods, write articles summarizing and disseminating lessons from ongoing and completed projects, and participate in workshops and other activities ...

Which of the different dimensions of research abstracts are most likely to capture the attention of policymakers?

How can workforce development best support quality in programs for youth?

How do adolescent experiences of daily life change as they transition from the high-school to the post-high school years? How do changes in experiences of daily life relate to changes of emotional well-being?

What are the relationships between children’s health and family daily routines and rituals? What strategies do parents use to construct and maintain family routines and rituals?

Under what conditions do youth develop negative (or positive) social relationships with other youth from diverse social groups?

How do the translating experiences of immigrant youth change over time in relation to their changing linguistic and social competencies, and their families’ changing circumstances?