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The team that developed CLASS will use this grant to develop easy-to-administer tools that assess teacher-student interactions using student and informant (principal/supervisor) surveys.

Getting Out and Staying Out (GO&SO) will use this award to improve and upgrade the database that tracks the activities of their formerly incarcerated clients who utilize their New York City office.

Young Audiences (YA) will use this award to improve its arts residencies programs, which are offered to New York City public schools.

New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NYSPCC) will use this award to improve its Trauma Recovery Program, which provides mental health services to youth who have experienced...

Groundswell will use this award to train their teaching artists to better identify and appropriately address the disruptive behavior of some of the program participants.

Rockaway Artists Alliance will use this award to improve and update services offered to children with special needs who attend the KidsmArt After-School program.

Love Heals will use this award to improve the Speakers Bureau Program, which sends health educators and youth speakers to public schools and community organizations to make presentations and conduct...

Support was given to generate awareness of best practices, research, and successful models of after-school programs.

Support was given to publish a monograph of the University of Chicago’s model for urban elementary schooling.

Support was given to the Campaign for Educational Equity’s state-wide Task Force on Comprehensive Educational Opportunity.

How do district and school staff acquire, interpret, and use research evidence to reform schools designated as in need of “corrective action” by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)?

What features of adolescents’ neighborhoods, families, and peer groups trigger early substance use? How can contextual triggers of early substance use be targeted to promote healthy development...

How do school-based peer networks influence adolescents’ sexual interactions, romantic partnerships, and mixed-gender friendships?

How can instruction and English Language Learner (ELL) services be best adapted for language minority students?

Why do adolescents choose particular friends?

Support was given for the SRA Young Scholars Program.

Support was given to chronicle the ten-year history of state funding for after-school programs in California, with particular emphasis on the events preceding the Proposition 49 campaign.

Support was given for a qualitative and mixed-methods consulting service provided to the William T. Grant Scholars.

Hill and her research team have been developing a video observation protocol that assesses the teaching of mathematics, and they will use this grant to make it more user-friendly, reliable, and...

The investigators are engaged in a large workplace intervention study designed to promote employees’ experiences of control over work time in the context of supervisor support. Parents' and youth's...