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Jennifer Mosley

Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago and The University of Chicago

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Federick Ngo

The Institutional Challenge Grant: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply

In this webinar, William T. Grant Foundation Senior Program Officer Jenny Irons and President Adam Gamoran discuss the background and goals of the Institutional Challenge Grant program and provide an...

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Five Early-Career Researchers Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2028

We’re pleased to announce the newest class of William T. Grant Scholars. Launched in 1982, the Scholars Program supports the professional development of promising researchers in the social,...

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The Intergenerational Impacts of Reparations on Youth Outcomes: Evidence from the Eastern Cherokees

What are the short- and long-term effects of cash reparations on recipients, their dependent children, and future generations?

Achyuta Adhvaryu

University of California at San Diego

2023 – 2026
$239,817.00

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The Effects of Alternative Staffing Models for Instructing Students with Disabilities

What is the relative effectiveness of different classroom staffing models for improving academic outcomes for students with disabilities, with a particular focus on Black and Hispanic students?

Marcus Winters

Boston University

2023 – 2025
$207,733.00

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Restoring Justice and Reimaging Research: Building Community to Disrupt the Cycle of Violence and Enhance Research-Practice Partnerships

This grant will support a partnership between the University of Texas at Austin, the Travis County District Attorney’s Office, the Excellence and Advancement Foundation, the Amala Foundation, and...

Becky Pettit and Courtney Robinson

University of Texas

2023 – 2026
$649,996.00

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Courtney Robinson

University of Texas

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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

Grantee Voices

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

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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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The Institutional Challenge Grant: An Overview of the Program and How to Apply

Five Early-Career Researchers Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2028

The Intergenerational Impacts of Reparations on Youth Outcomes: Evidence from the Eastern Cherokees

The Effects of Alternative Staffing Models for Instructing Students with Disabilities

Restoring Justice and Reimaging Research: Building Community to Disrupt the Cycle of Violence and Enhance Research-Practice Partnerships

Courtney Robinson

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

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