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Do classrooms that support students’ feelings of autonomy improve student motivation, attitudes, and behaviors?

Lieber will provide consultation services to build grantee capacity in conducting mixed-methods research. Lieber and his team will also organize the Foundation’s mixed-methods workshop.

Poteat will investigate the composition and social dynamics of an important after-school activity, Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs).

The goal of this project is to develop a conceptual framework that assists in the identification and measurement of factors that contribute to the success of scale-up efforts.

This grant will increase understanding of districts’ concerns about using classroom observation measures in teacher evaluation systems.

Support documentation on social programs and the role of evaluation research in advocating, funding, developing, and implementing them.

Jennifer Barber is a successful, mid-career academic in the field of adolescent reproductive health and pregnancy prevention. She wants her research to have greater influence on programs and services...

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)—a school intervention widely implemented throughout the United States—aims to promote a healthy school climate and prevent disruptive student...

To support and help expand NPR's news programming on youth issues.

What is the link between the language teachers use in classrooms and middle school students’ reading comprehension?

This grant will enable the Partnership for Children and Youth to inform and influence federal legislation as it relates to the development of quality systems of out-of-school time programming.

Investigators will examine the impact of recent exposure to violent crime on academic achievement and how the impact varies with respect to the timing of the incident, its physical proximity to the...

The first phase of the study will examine how the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) develops their plan to disseminate ACE research evidence and clarify whether the...

Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) wants to improve its Garden Apprentice Program, a year-round internship offered to 60 middle and high school students.

Futures and Options wants to improve its Pre-Internship Program, which serves 100 middle and high school students who have not yet acquired the age or skill level to be placed in internships.

Peter Kleinbard will document the pathways to education and employment for young people who drop out of school and are unemployed--the disconnected youth.

Free Arts NYC wants to improve its Free Arts Day (FAD) program, which promotes arts engagement among underserved and homeless New York City youth.

Multicultural Music Group (MMG) wants to improve its Symphonic Youth Program (SYP), an after-school instrumental and vocal music training program operating in five middle and high schools in the...

Dancewave wants to improve its Company I and II programs, in which 32 teen members train with professional guest choreographers and attend intensive rehearsals and dance classes.

Can an organizational intervention alter the culture and climate of mental health service programs for youth and result in improvement in staff attitudes, services delivered, and outcomes for...