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Keys for Improving the Education of Low-income Children

Technological advances and globalization have transformed the American economy over the past four decades, posing enormous challenges for America’s public schools. The advanced skills needed to...

Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane

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Trust and the Use of Research Evidence

When policymakers, practitioners, and others use research evidence, they do so within a web of human relationships. The strength of research evidence alone doesn’t guarantee consistent...

Rob Asen

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Improving the Quality of Classroom Interactions

The Foundation has funded several innovative classroom interventions designed to alter settings in ways that result in positive outcomes for the youth within them. In order to change a setting for...

Edward Seidman

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Edward Seidman

Bruce Western is a sociology professor, the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy, director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, and faculty chair of the...

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Deborah Gurke

Individuals, University of Wisconsin, Madison and Wisconsin Association of School Boards

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Inequality is the Problem: Prioritizing Research on Reducing Inequality

Excerpt The salience of inequality in the United States is widely recognized, and voices from many spheres are calling for efforts to combat inequality. Prior research and development demonstrates...

Adam Gamoran

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Classroom Qualities for English Language Learners in Language Arts Instruction

With more than five-million English-language learners in U.S. schools, a research-based consensus is needed to assess classroom practices that promote their school achievement. Classroom Qualities...

Claude Goldenberg and Rhoda Coleman

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Claude Goldenberg

Claude Goldenberg is the Nomellini & Olivier professor of education in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University.

Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University and Stanford University

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Rhoda Coleman

Rhoda Coleman is a senior research fellow and professional development specialist at the Center for Language Minority Education and Research at California State University–Long Beach.

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Rocking the Boat Builds Valuable Lessons for Low-Income Youth

Located in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the South Bronx, the nonprofit organization Rocking the Boat is making a huge difference in the lives of low-income youth. By teaching kids to sail, the...

Foundation Staff

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What Counts as Evidence for Adolescent Preventive Health Services Policy and Practice? A Study of the US Preventive Services Task Force

How do intermediary organizations manage political pressures, value disagreements, differing scientific approaches, and organizational interests as they develop research-based guidelines for practice?

Ronald Bayer, Alan Fleischman, Constance Nathanson, Bhaven Sampat, Daniel Fox, Sandro Galea, Gerald Oppenheimer and David Johns

Brooklyn College, City University of New York

2014 – 2017

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National Conferences on the New Orleans School Reforms

The Education Research Alliance for New Orleans (Era-New Orleans) is convening two conferences for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss results from studies conducted in the wake...

Douglas Harris

Tulane University

2014 – 2015
$25,000.00

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Keys for Improving the Education of Low-income Children

Trust and the Use of Research Evidence

Improving the Quality of Classroom Interactions

Edward Seidman

Deborah Gurke

Inequality is the Problem: Prioritizing Research on Reducing Inequality

Classroom Qualities for English Language Learners in Language Arts Instruction

Claude Goldenberg

Rhoda Coleman

Rocking the Boat Builds Valuable Lessons for Low-Income Youth

What Counts as Evidence for Adolescent Preventive Health Services Policy and Practice? A Study of the US Preventive Services Task Force

National Conferences on the New Orleans School Reforms

Douglas Harris

Constance Nathanson

Ronald Bayer

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Bhaven Sampat

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