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Engaging Lived Expertise in Child Welfare Research

Research is core to the William T. Grant Foundation, as is the use of the knowledge that results from high-quality, community-based empirical investigations. We are committed to funding the study of...

Kim DuMont

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Toward lasting change: Supporting school district central offices’ use of research to address systemic educational inequities

Researchers and reformers in education and likely other arenas would do well to recognize how they are implicitly or explicitly defining “systemic” in their equity approaches and to understand some...

Meredith Honig

3/2/2023

Applicant Guidance

Webinar: Research Grants on Reducing Inequality: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply

In this webinar, from February 2023, Senior Program Officer Jenny Irons and President Adam Gamoran discuss the background and goals of the program, provide an overview of eligibility details,...

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President’s Comment: Advancing Research on Racial Equity in a Time of Polarization

Research has a critical role to play in challenging damaging narratives and establishing different perspectives. In supporting the project "Public Learning in a Multiracial Democracy," we hope to...

Adam Gamoran

3/2/2023

Research Grants on Reducing Inequality

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Meredith Honig

University of Washington

Issue 08: Winter 2022-23

Learning Across Contexts: Bringing Together Research on Research Use and Implementation Science

The fields of implementation science and the study of research use in policy and practice travel on many of the same roads and share similar goals, chief among which is improving societal outcomes...

Lauren Supplee, Allison Metz and Annette Boaz

Issue 08: Winter 2022-23

Reducing Educational Inequality After the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Do We Know, and What Research Do We Need?

Today, as the pandemic recedes, its effects are still with us, in education as well as in other domains. We have considerable knowledge about how to respond to growing inequality, yet many questions...

Adam Gamoran and Richard Murnane

Issue 08: Winter 2022-23

Building Evidence Systems to Integrate Implementation Research and Practice in Education

Whether framed as a problem of practice or research use, understanding implementation is critical for identifying and redressing the inequitable distribution of resources, facilitators, and barriers...

Norma Ming

Issue 08: Winter 2022-23

Emergency Exits: Avenues for New Research to Improve Youth Outcomes After COVID

As the effects of COVID linger on, researchers have a crucial role to play in cataloging them. Even more important, by developing knowledge about exactly who is affected and how, researchers can...

Anya Kamenetz

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Lauren Supplee

Joanna Williams is an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education.

Child Trends Incorporated and Pennsylvania State University

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Richard Murnane

Harvard University

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Allison Metz

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Norma Ming

San Francisco Unified School District, University of California at Berkeley and University of California, Berkeley

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Welcoming Our New Program Officer, Anupreet Sidhu

Dr. Sidhu is a socio-behavioral scientist with an interest in using research evidence to influence policy and regulatory practices. She recently completed her postdoctoral studies at the Perelman...

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Grant Announcements

Announcing the 2023 Institutional Challenge Grant Finalists

This year’s proposals include partnerships that will examine programs, policies, or practices that seek to reduce racial and economic disparities in K-12 educational outcomes; improve college...

Grant Announcements

Four New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas

We are proud to announce four new research grants, including three to support studies on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and one to support a study on improving the use of research evidence....

Grantee Voices

Partnering through Disruption: Responsive Research with Communities in Crisis

In 2018, when we launched our study, Putting Immigration and Education in Conversation Everyday (PIECE), it was a time of crisis for immigrant communities. Anti-immigrant policies, aggressive...

Rebecca Lowenhaupt

1/4/2023

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Rebecca Lowenhaupt

Boston College

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Shifting the Academic Ecology to Support Community Engaged Scholarship

The American Sociological Association will pilot a structured process for engaging sociology departments and relevant institutional administrators at three institutions in a review of their promotion...

Heather Washington

American Sociological Association

2023 – 2024
$49,990.00

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Engaging Lived Expertise in Child Welfare Research

Toward lasting change: Supporting school district central offices’ use of research to address systemic educational inequities

Webinar: Research Grants on Reducing Inequality: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply

President’s Comment: Advancing Research on Racial Equity in a Time of Polarization

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Meredith Honig

Learning Across Contexts: Bringing Together Research on Research Use and Implementation Science

Reducing Educational Inequality After the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Do We Know, and What Research Do We Need?

Building Evidence Systems to Integrate Implementation Research and Practice in Education

Emergency Exits: Avenues for New Research to Improve Youth Outcomes After COVID

Lauren Supplee

Richard Murnane

Allison Metz

Norma Ming

Welcoming Our New Program Officer, Anupreet Sidhu

Announcing the 2023 Institutional Challenge Grant Finalists

Four New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas

Partnering through Disruption: Responsive Research with Communities in Crisis

Rebecca Lowenhaupt

Shifting the Academic Ecology to Support Community Engaged Scholarship

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