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Do community college reforms that use high school records rather than placement tests reduce inequalities in course enrollment and success?

Under what conditions do school and district decision makers use youth-generated research to inform policies and practices?

How might teachers’ abilities to promote adolescents’ ethnic-racial identity development be increased to ultimately reduce academic disparities?

How might an integrated data-based decision making framework reduce racial and ethnic disparities in school discipline referrals and access to school-based mental health supports?

Does the inclusion of reference letters in a selective college’s admissions process reduce inequality in admissions decisions?

How would Black youth in the juvenile justice system redesign that system to better meet their mental health needs?

Can a light-touch intervention that provides information, nudges, and financial incentives to high-achieving, low-income students help them apply for and get into college?

What insights can Kansas offer about using research evidence to inform school finance reform?

Can a knowledge brokering intervention improve the use of research evidence in state policymaking?

Strong measures are needed to assess when and how research-practice partnerships are effective and can improve the use of research evidence in policy and practice.

How do public school educators respond to rapidly-changing immigration policies to better serve immigrant-origin students?

How can social-emotional learning practices promote civic engagement among Black and Latino youth?

What types of high-school counseling activities can help low-socioeconomic status students apply to colleges to which they are well-matched and thereby improve their college completion outcomes?

How do progressive school funding systems affect academic achievement in low-income school districts?

What is the potential for local decision makers to improve youth outcomes by adopting programs that have yielded positive effects in other sites?

Did the state-level expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act improve academic outcomes for low-income children?

Does a state policy requiring general education teachers to receive training in working with English learners improve academic achievement?

How does politics influence incentives to acquire, interpret, and use research evidence in policymaking?

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

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?