2019 Archives - William T. Grant Foundation

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
$596,145

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 5: 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 5: 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 5: 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 5: 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

Joseph A. Ferrare

and Lorien Jasney

2019

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