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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

Around the Foundation

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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Heather Washington

American Sociological Association

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Public Learning for a Multiracial Democracy: A Project to Construct a New Narrative

The purpose of this grant is to build a new narrative and ultimately contribute to a social movement that counterbalances the current wave of hostility to antiracist education.

Amy Wells and Janelle Scott

Bank Street College of Education

2022 – 2025
$314,999.00

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Janelle Scott

Bank Street College of Education, Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, Teachers College, Columbia University, University of California at Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, University Of Illinois and University of Illinois, Chicago

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Amy Wells

Bank Street College of Education and Teachers College, Columbia University

Applicant Guidance

Proposing Research on Reducing Inequality: Studying Mechanisms and Investigating the “How and Why” Behind Intervention Outcomes

Understanding why an intervention produces statistically significant outcomes requires moving away from studies that treat participation as the main variable of interest and toward those that analyze...

Melissa Wooten

12/7/2022

Grantee Voices

Tips for Researchers: Navigating the Gaps Between Research and Policy

Local policymakers often lack rigorous data and analysis about which programs are most effective. But too often academics do not apply their knowledge to the most pressing policy issues in these...

Alicia Modestino

12/6/2022

Grant Announcements

Eleven Finalists Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2028

The William T. Grant Foundation is pleased to announce the finalists for the William T. Grant Scholars Program class of 2028. Eleven early-career researchers were selected from a pool of 43...

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Alicia Modestino

Northeastern University

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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

Heather Washington

Public Learning for a Multiracial Democracy: A Project to Construct a New Narrative

Janelle Scott

Amy Wells

Proposing Research on Reducing Inequality: Studying Mechanisms and Investigating the “How and Why” Behind Intervention Outcomes

Tips for Researchers: Navigating the Gaps Between Research and Policy

Eleven Finalists Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2028

Alicia Modestino

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