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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.