2021 Archives - William T. Grant Foundation

Awarded Grants

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One Talk at a Time: A racial-ethnic socialization intervention for diverse families to reduce psychosocial inequalities

Does an intervention to help parents talk to their adolescent children about discrimination and racial-ethnic identity improve children’s ability to cope with discrimination as well as their social, behavioral, and academic outcomes?

Gabriela Stein

University Of Texas At Austin

2022 – 2025
$599,999

Grant

Reducing Inequalities for Immigrant, Multilingual Students in Secondary Schools

Do the International Academies, an approach designed to meet the academic needs of English Learners, improve their school performance and attainment?

Adriana Villavicencio

University Of California At Irvine

2022 – 2025
$598,647

Grant

The Inception and Impact of Researcher-Policymaker Relationships

Does a light-touch intervention to connect county legislators with research and researchers improve their use of research evidence?

Adam Levine

Johns Hopkins University

2022 – 2024
$216,360

Grant

Long-Term Consequences of the Voting Rights Act for Black-White Disparities in Children’s Later-Life Outcomes

What are the long-term consequences of the 1965 Voting Rights Act for Black-White educational and labor market disparities?

Ying Shi

Syracuse University

2021 – 2024
$359,556

Grant

Effects of Work and Financial Assistance Policies on Child Outcomes: Long-Term Evidence from Welfare Reform Experiments

What are the impacts of different welfare-to-work interventions on the children of former recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families 20 years later, and how do impacts vary by gender and age of exposure to the policy changes?

Zhuan Pei

Cornell University

2021 – 2024
$544,312

Grant

Development of a Measure of Equity-Based Social Emotional Learning Practices

How can we measure the extent to which teachers advance racial equity through their instruction on social-emotional learning?

Deborah Rivas-Drake

University Of Michigan

2021 – 2022
$49,999

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News

• Dec 8, 2021

Eleven Finalists Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2027

We are pleased to announce the finalists for the William T. Grant Scholars Program class of 2027. Eleven early-career researchers were selected from a pool of applicants after a rigorous review by our staff and Selection Committee. Fabienne Doucet, the program ...

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Eleven Finalists Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2027

Webinars

Webinar: Measuring Race and Racism in Studies of Research Use

“Measuring Race and Racism in Studies of Research Use” is the fourth webinar in a series focused on bringing critical race perspectives to research that examines how to improve the use of research evidence in policy and practice. Past sessions ...

Foundation Staff

Webinars

Webinar: Researching how to make science more useful and used in policy and practice

Science has the potential to improve important outcomes for youth. But if the science generated isn’t used, we are failing to achieve our goal. In this webinar, Senior Program Officer Lauren Supplee and special guest Arthur Lupia of the ...

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News

• Nov 30, 2021

Four New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence on Ways to Reduce Inequality in Youth Outcomes

We are proud to announce four new research grants for studies on reducing inequality. Approved at the Foundation’s October Board meeting, these awards will help build theory and empirical ...

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