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Multilingual Students’ Engagement with the Science of Reading

How do culturally sustaining, multilingual, and multimodal Science of Reading-aligned literacy practices support reading development among Black multilingual learners from immigrant backgrounds?

Lydiah Kiramba

University Of Nebraska

2026 – 2027
$50,000.00

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Relocation and Spillovers: How Residential Mobility Policies Can Reshape Educational and Economic Outcomes for Children from Subsidized and Unsubsidized Families

Does an increase in government-subsidized access to high-opportunity neighborhoods reduce academic and economic disparities for students from low-income families? What are the spillover effects on...

JoonYup Park

University of Hawaii at Manoa

2026 – 2027
$48,402.00

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Evaluating the Feasibility of Studying How School District Procurement Influences School District Use of Evidence in Selecting Instructional Resources

Is it feasible to study evidence requirements in school districts’ requests for proposals (RFPs) as a lever for improving the use of research evidence in public education?

Nicole Russo-Ponsaran

Rush University Medical Center

2026 – 2027
$49,993.00

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“Known for Values:” William T. Grant on His 150th Birthday

One hundred and fifty years ago this month, on June 27, 1876, visionary entrepreneur and retailer William T. Grant was born in Stevensville, Pennsylvania. Grant opened his first department store,...

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ICYMI: The Research We Need to Reduce Inequality for Immigrant-Origin Youth

Immigrant-origin youth in the United States are being targeted in today’s hostile political climate. But supportive responses exist at multiple levels, from federal, to state, to local, to...

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6/10/2026

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Proposing Research on Reducing Inequality: Qualitative and Mixed Methods Studies

When staff present at conferences or talk with interested applicants, we sometimes encounter the misperception that the William T. Grant Foundation funds only quantitative intervention studies. While...

Jenny Irons

6/9/2026

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How Two Scholars are Mobilizing Research to Support Education for a Multiracial Democracy

Amid the 2020 racial reckoning following George Floyd’s murder, school districts nationwide ushered in new policies to implement inclusive, antiracist curriculum. In the following years,...

Natalie De Rosa

6/9/2026

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Multilingual Students’ Engagement with the Science of Reading

Relocation and Spillovers: How Residential Mobility Policies Can Reshape Educational and Economic Outcomes for Children from Subsidized and Unsubsidized Families

Evaluating the Feasibility of Studying How School District Procurement Influences School District Use of Evidence in Selecting Instructional Resources

“Known for Values:” William T. Grant on His 150th Birthday

ICYMI: The Research We Need to Reduce Inequality for Immigrant-Origin Youth

Proposing Research on Reducing Inequality: Qualitative and Mixed Methods Studies

How Two Scholars are Mobilizing Research to Support Education for a Multiracial Democracy

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