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President’s Comment: Advancing Research on Racial Equity in a Time of Polarization

Research has a critical role to play in challenging damaging narratives and establishing different perspectives. In supporting the project “Public Learning in a Multiracial Democracy,” we hope to help change the environment for antiracist education in ways that foster greater ...
Adam Gamoran
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President’s Comment: Effective Programs are Not Enough, We Need Structural Change to Reduce Inequality

Since 2015, the William T. Grant Foundation has funded research on programs, policies, and practices that reduce inequality in youth outcomes. We have supported a diverse pool of highly accomplished researchers, ...
Adam Gamoran
President’s Comment: Effective Programs are Not Enough, We Need Structural Change to Reduce Inequality
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President’s Comment: A Message to Our Grantees

While the world grapples with the crisis of COVID-19, each of us faces challenges in our own lives. As a funder, we want to alleviate one sense of pressure you may feel: We intend to be as flexible and understanding ...
President’s Comment: A Message to Our Grantees
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President’s Comment: Science Denial is Not the Whole Story, a Treatise in 14 Tweets

ICYMI: All of this @nytimes article about science denial is true — but it’s not the whole story. The whole story is worse in some ways, better than others. What accounts for when science is accepted and when it’s ...
Adam Gamoran
President’s Comment: Science Denial is Not the Whole Story, a Treatise in 14 Tweets
Digest, Issue 03: Winter 2017-18

Engaging English Learners with Rigorous Academic Content: Insights from Research on Tracking

Lessons about mitigating the effects of tracking on inequality may point the way toward reducing inequality for English learners.
Adam Gamoran
Engaging English Learners with Rigorous Academic Content: Insights from Research on Tracking
Digest, Issue 02: Spring 2017

Promoting Research That Is Both Rigorous and Relevant

We recognize that no single effort will be transformative, but we hope that our collective efforts as researchers, research funders, universities, and professional associations can support research that, over the long term, improves the lives of young people.
Adam Gamoran
 and Vivian Tseng
Promoting Research That Is Both Rigorous and Relevant
Digest, Issue 02: Spring 2017

Bringing Rigor to Relevant Questions

Put simply, the dichotomy of rigor versus relevance is false. There is no inevitable trade-off between producing rigorous research and producing research with relevance for the real world. Researchers who want their work to matter in policy and practice should ...
Vivian Tseng
 and Adam Gamoran
Bringing Rigor to Relevant Questions
Digest, Issue 01: Summer 2016

Investing in Tools to Create Evidence and Improve Policy

A key approach in our efforts to support impactful research is to invest in the development of tools that enhance the work of many researchers engaged in a common enterprise.
Adam Gamoran
Investing in Tools to Create Evidence and Improve Policy
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President’s Comment: To Reduce Inequality, We Need More Answers

Whether compared to other countries or to our own history, it is clear that inequality in the United States today is excessive and harmful to our economy and society. Yet the evidence is also clear that social policy can reduce ...
Adam Gamoran
President’s Comment: To Reduce Inequality, We Need More Answers
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President’s Comment: Inequality Is the Problem—What’s Our Response?

From the mayor of New York to President Obama and Pope Francis, hardly a day goes by without a prominent leader decrying the degree of inequality in the United States and worldwide. Our view at the Foundation is that inequality ...
Adam Gamoran
President’s Comment: Inequality Is the Problem—What’s Our Response?
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