This grant will support the Youth Development Institute to partner with two Youth Service Improvement Grant grantees to research, document, and publish lessons learned as a result of their Foundation awards.
When a school’s principal changes, what are the effects on teacher engagement and student achievement? What factors are associated with a successful transition?
Funds will be used for Judith Gueron’s speaking and writing engagements for foundation leaders, federal agency and congressional staff, research and policy organizations, and academics in public policy schools and economics departments to promote evidence-based policy.
As an extension of the Foundation’s Youth Service Improvement Grants program, this small grant provides capacity-building support to youth-serving organizations in our local community.
This funding completes the archiving of the Beginning Schools Survey data archived at Harvard’s Murray Research Center, a data archive and lending library for research projects focused on youth development.
In this essay, Vivian Tseng and William T. Grant Foundation senior program team colleagues describe the Foundation’s interest in generating studies that focus on understanding the use of research evidence in policy and practice affecting youth and how to ...
When William T. Grant established this Foundation in 1936, he wanted, in his words, to support research that would yield new insights about why some people led happy and successful lives and others did not. Armed with this evidence, he reasoned, ...
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.
