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Issue 04: Winter 2018-19

The Rewards of Studying the Use of Research Evidence

Here, two distinguished researchers and past grantees of the Foundation describe why they chose to study the use of research evidence and how that work has benefitted from and contributed to their...

Issue 04: Winter 2018-19

Reframing Evidence-Based Policy to Align with the Evidence

In this essay, Kim DuMont urges advocates for evidence-based policy to attend to the evidence on getting evidence used, and calls on researchers to test new models that take into account the social...

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Timothy M. Smeeding

Timothy M. Smeeding is the Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Senior Program Associate at the William T. Grant...

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William T. Grant Foundation 2019 Institutional Challenge Grant Finalists

The William T. Grant Foundation is very pleased to announce the finalists for its Institutional Challenge Grant program. Launched in March of 2017, the Institutional Challenge Grant encourages...

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Introducing a Redesigned Youth Service Improvement Grants Program

Today, we are proud to launch a redesign of our Youth Service Improvement Grants Program. The Foundation introduced the Youth Service Improvement Grants program over a decade ago as a way to help...

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IES-Men of Color College Achievement (MoCCA) Project

How can colleges improve services and outcomes for African American male students?

Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, Virginia Knox and Crystal Byndloss

MDRC

2019 – 2023
$599,112.00

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Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research Capacity Building

This award provides grantees with consultations and a workshop to build their capacity to conduct mixed-methods research that integrates qualitative and quantitative methods.

Timothy Guetterman

University of Michigan

2019 – 2020
$99,313.00

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Student-Teacher Ethnoracial Match and Student Outcomes in Large Urban School Districts: Evidence from New York City

Do Black and Latinx students in large urban school districts experience improved academic, disciplinary, and persistence outcomes when assigned to teachers of the same ethnoracial background?

Matthew Shirrell and Travis Bristol

George Washington University

2019 – 2020

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Closing the Gap: Addressing the Learning Needs of English Language Learners in Mainstream Classroom

How can teachers better identify English Language Learners (ELLs) at risk for learning disabilities?

Miao Li

University of Houston

2019 – 2025
$46,229.00

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Society for Research in Child Development Preconference Spirit of 2044

This award will provide support for the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)’s preconference “In the Spirit of 2044: Cultural and Contextual Diversity in Collaborative Science.”

Christia Brown

University of Kentucky

2019
$13,869.00

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Standing Committee on Advancing Science Communication Research and Practice

This award will provide support for the new National Academies Standing Committee on Advancing Science Communication Research and Practice.

Holly Rhodes

National Academy of Sciences

2019 – 2020
$50,000.00

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Travel Awards to the RC28 Princeton University Meeting for Underrepresented Student Populations

This award will support ten travel awards to enable graduate students of color enrolled in Ph.D. programs in U.S. universities to attend the Research Committee in Social Stratification and Mobility...

Yu Xie

Princeton University

2019
$11,500.00

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The Rewards of Studying the Use of Research Evidence

Reframing Evidence-Based Policy to Align with the Evidence

Timothy M. Smeeding

William T. Grant Foundation 2019 Institutional Challenge Grant Finalists

Introducing a Redesigned Youth Service Improvement Grants Program

IES-Men of Color College Achievement (MoCCA) Project

Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research Capacity Building

Student-Teacher Ethnoracial Match and Student Outcomes in Large Urban School Districts: Evidence from New York City

Closing the Gap: Addressing the Learning Needs of English Language Learners in Mainstream Classroom

Society for Research in Child Development Preconference Spirit of 2044

Standing Committee on Advancing Science Communication Research and Practice

Travel Awards to the RC28 Princeton University Meeting for Underrepresented Student Populations

Crystal Byndloss

Timothy Guetterman

Matthew Shirrell

Travis Bristol

Miao Li

Christia Brown

Holly Rhodes

Yu Xie

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