How do LGBT youth respond to stigma and stress in communities either hostile or supportive of LGBT rights? How do community based organizations attempt to empower youth to work for social change?
This study will investigate the role of intermediaries in conveying research evidence in support of college completion, ways research evidence is used, and the extent to which policymakers rely on intermediaries.
Morris and her colleagues will leverage data from an existing randomized control trial of a conditional cash transfer program—Opportunity New York City-Family Rewards Program (ONYC)—to examine if and how income instability affects family processes and youth school outcomes.
The investigators will examine the relationship between supportive classroom environments and positive youth development and analyze participants’ perceptions of classroom environment and how the differences relate to student academic and social development across early adolescence.
The primary goal of Kaczorowski’s Distinguished Fellowship is to better understand how researchers evaluate program fidelity and outcomes in violence prevention programs for children and youth.
This site enables users to apply for access to quantitative data and classroom videos created by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The prevailing research-to-practice model suggests a one-way street of moving research to practice. To strengthen research-practice connections, however, we need to build a two-way street with reciprocal exchanges.
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.
