post_year

2019

Awarded Grants

Grant

Family First Act Policy Research

How have states have begun to exercise the flexibility afforded by Family First Preventative Services Act and what evidence might become available in the future to assess the impact of the legislation?
Harold Briggs
University Of Georgia
2020 – 2024
$50,000
Grant

Reducing Racial Educational and Behavioral Disparities through Teacher Unconscious Bias Training

Can training teachers to address unconscious racial bias improve African American students’ academic and behavioral outcomes?
Colleen Halliday
Medical University Of South Carolina
2020 – 2027
$599,059
Grant

NPR’s Collaborative Journalism Network

This award will support National Public Radio Collaborative Journalism Network, an effort to enhance capacity to report on issues affecting children, youth, and families within disadvantaged communities in high-need regions.
Blair Gage
National Public Radio
2020 – 2021
$25,000
Grant

Reducing Gaps in Educational Attainment – The Role of Remediation Reform in California Community Colleges

Do community college reforms that use high school records rather than placement tests reduce inequalities in course enrollment and success?
Olga Rodriguez
Public Policy Institute Of California
2020 – 2021
$420,778
Grant

All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference

This award will support the All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference.
Chris Benner
University Of California, Santa Cruz
2019 – 2022
$10,000

Articles & More

Digest, Issue 05: Winter 2019-20

The Long Shadow: Considering How Racism Shapes Justice System Inequality and Efforts to Disrupt it

What is needed is not a one-off intervention, but an informed understanding of how racism makes its way into encounters between youth and police and a commitment to addressing the ...
Nikki Jones
The Long Shadow: Considering How Racism Shapes Justice System Inequality and Efforts to Disrupt it
Digest, Issue 05: Winter 2019-20

No Small Matters: Reimagining the Use of Research Evidence From A Racial Justice Perspective

We can no more afford methodologically rich research studies that lack racial consciousness than we can afford racially conscious studies that lack methodological rigor.
David Kirkland
No Small Matters: Reimagining the Use of Research Evidence From A Racial Justice Perspective
Digest, Issue 05: Winter 2019-20

Shifting the Lens: Why Conceptualization Matters in Research on Reducing Inequality

To begin shifting the underlying structures of inequality, scholars can harness the power of rigorous research to produce innovative, ground-breaking research that might further upend the narratives that inequality is inevitable or explained by individual differences.
Jenny Irons
Shifting the Lens: Why Conceptualization Matters in Research on Reducing Inequality
Digest, Issue 05: Winter 2019-20

Centering the Margins: (Re)defining Useful Research Evidence Through Critical Perspectives

Improving the use of research evidence will require ensuring usefulness—and use—toward ends that are congruent with the goals and visions that marginalized communities have for their self-determined benefits.
Fabienne Doucet
Centering the Margins: (Re)defining Useful Research Evidence Through Critical Perspectives
Publication

Building Consensus: Idea Brokerage in Teacher Policy Networks

Abstract We show how policy makers converged to support similar reforms on a major educational issue: teacher effectiveness. Our study demonstrates the importance of idea brokers—actors that facilitate connections between preferences in policy networks and promote consensus around new ...
Sara Galey-Horn
,
Sarah Reckhow
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Joseph A. Ferrare
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and Lorien Jasney
Building Consensus: Idea Brokerage in Teacher Policy Networks
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