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Can a school-based intervention focused on increasing school motivation and academic outcomes of low-SES adolescents have positive effects on students’ health?

How are elementary schools’ policies and practices for special services (e.g., special education, English acquisition, and gifted/talented education) shaped by communities’ immigration contexts?

What are the organizational features of colleges and universities that promote success for low-income, Black, and Latino students?

What are the consequences of paternal incarceration on children’s well-being?

Can an intervention promote students’ sustained interest and effort in academic tasks?

Megan Sandel is an associate professor of Pediatrics at Boston Medical School whose expertise and research interests lie at the intersection of housing, health, and child development for low-income...

Is the assumption behind pro-marriage policies—that marriage improves academic outcomes among Black youth—empirically supported?

How do ideas about what constitutes inequality shape policies designed to respond to inequality?

The grant will support a volume of the Future of Children journal titled “Reducing Justice System Inequality.” This volume will examine inequalities in the justice system and explore alternative...

Tach has accumulated experience mentoring seven doctoral students in a formal mentoring capacity, serving on committees, supervising research assistantships and collaborating with students on...

MacKenzie proposes to use the award to develop the different skill sets involved with mentoring junior colleagues, as compared to students.

The Forum for Youth Investment will continue to advance grantees’ capacities to conduct and share research by organizing two learning communities for Foundation grantees and connecting researchers...

How has the spread of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) changed relationships among organizations in the K–12 education sector, and what consequences are evident for teaching, learning, and...

This grant supported the creation of a self-study guide to assist states in implementing the evidence-based provisions for school improvement of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)