How has a state policy designed to reduce structural barriers to high school graduation for immigrant-origin and language minority youth been implemented, and how has it impacted student outcomes?
Career development is a cornerstone of the Foundation’s approach to grantmaking. One way we do this is through investing in efforts that foster supportive environments for scholars from groups ...
Photo courtesy of San Francisco Unified School District-UC Berkeley RPP Improving outcomes for students, families, and communities increasingly depends on new forms of collaboration that bring educators, researchers, policymakers, community members, and youth into shared work. Research-practice...
Research can illuminate the strategies civil society organizations have adopted on behalf of immigrant youth and investigate how these supports can reduce long-term inequality.
At a time when immigrant youth face widening inequities and shifting policy environments, safe-zone schools illustrate how local institutions can protect and advance vulnerable students.
With the courts serving as a space than can reduce or exacerbate youth inequity, studies can illuminate strategies to improve the use of research evidence in the courts to inform youth-related court rulings.
We need studies to cultivate routine use of high-quality research in legal decision-making, rigorous tests to examine the effectiveness of these strategies, and causal assessments of whether increased research use translate to better youth outcomes eventually.
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.
