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Are Racial Equity Policies an Effective Lever to Reduce Educational Inequality for Black Students?

How can policymakers, school district leaders, and school leaders develop and implement racial equity policies that reduce inequalities for Black students?

Terrance Green

University Of Texas At Austin

2020 – 2025
$350,000

Grant

What Drives Racial/Ethnic Disparities in School Discipline? Understanding Mechanisms to Inform Policy Solutions

Can empowering teachers and school leaders with evidence about the drivers of racial/ethnic disparities in their school improve their school discipline practices and policies?

Jayanti Owens

Yale University

2020 – 2026
$350,000

Grant

Measuring Educator’s Use of Research Evidence from Intermediary Websites Seeking to Support Social Emotional Learning

How can websites targeted at education practitioners be more effectively leveraged to promote the use of research evidence?

Valerie Shapiro

University Of California At Berkeley

2020 – 2025
$350,000

Grant

Reducing Inequality through Improved Outcomes for Children Receiving SSI Benefits

Can an intervention that informs parents about their child’s likelihood of being removed from disability benefits improve child outcomes?

Manasi Deshpande

The University Of Chicago

2020 – 2025
$350,000

Grant

Structural Stigma and Suicide Risk in Gender & Racial Minority Students: A Novel Study to Understand & Reduce Inequality

How do college and university policies shape the lived experiences of transgender and gender nonconforming students and contribute to mental health inequalities?

Sarah Lipson

Boston University

2020 – 2025

Grant

How does working while enrolled affect the academic and labor-market outcomes of low-income college students?

How can the FWS Program be better used to improve academic and labor market outcomes for low-income college students?

Adela Soliz

Vanderbilt University

2019 – 2024
$350,000

Grant

School Engagement and Avoidance among System-Involved Parents with Young Children

How do system-involved parents of young children view, interact, and engage (or not) with schools?

Anna Haskins

University Of Notre Dame

2019 – 2025
$350,000

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• Jul 15, 2020

Welcoming Three New Members to the William T. Grant Scholars Selection Committee

We are pleased to announce three new members of the William T. Grant Scholars Selection Committee, a dedicated group of academics who are committed to the Scholars Program’s priorities of career development, mentoring, and the bold pursuit of new ...

Foundation Staff

Welcoming Three New Members to the William T. Grant Scholars Selection Committee

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• May 1, 2020

Five Early-Career Researchers Selected for the 2020 William T. Grant Scholars Program

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 William T. Grant Scholars awards. Launched in 1982, the Scholars Program supports the professional development of promising researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences who have received their terminal degrees within ...

Boston University School of Public Health

Brown University

Regents of the University of California, Berkeley

University of Chicago

and University of Texas at Austin

Five Early-Career Researchers Selected for the 2020 William T. Grant Scholars Program

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• Nov 21, 2019

Ten Finalists Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Program

We are pleased to announce the finalists for the 2020 William T. Grant Scholars Program. Ten early-career researchers were selected from a pool of 62 applicants after a rigorous review by our staff and Selection Committee. Program officer Fabienne Doucet said of ...

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