Drawing on their relationships in the policy world and expertise in youth development, the Forum for Youth Investment helps the Foundation build connections and facilitate meetings between researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and funders.
How do intermediary organizations manage political pressures, value disagreements, differing scientific approaches, and organizational interests as they develop research-based guidelines for practice?
The Education Research Alliance for New Orleans (Era-New Orleans) is convening two conferences for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss results from studies conducted in the wake of significant school reform efforts in New Orleans.
Technological advances and globalization have transformed the American economy over the past four decades, posing enormous challenges for America’s public schools. The advanced skills needed to earn a good living in today’s labor market have placed greater demands ...
When policymakers, practitioners, and others use research evidence, they do so within a web of human relationships. The strength of research evidence alone doesn’t guarantee consistent interpretation or its implementation. But the quality of relationships does matter when it ...
The Foundation has funded several innovative classroom interventions designed to alter settings in ways that result in positive outcomes for the youth within them. In order to change a setting for the better, we need to first understand how that ...
Excerpt The salience of inequality in the United States is widely recognized, and voices from many spheres are calling for efforts to combat inequality. Prior research and development demonstrates that social policies can reduce inequality and its effects on young ...
With more than five-million English-language learners in U.S. schools, a research-based consensus is needed to assess classroom practices that promote their school achievement. Classroom Qualities for English Language Learners in Language Arts Instruction (CQELL) is an observation tool that ...
Located in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the South Bronx, the nonprofit organization Rocking the Boat is making a huge difference in the lives of low-income youth. By teaching kids to sail, the organization strengthens math and science skills and ...
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.
