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Issue 06: Winter 2020-21

Forging Connections: Grantee Experiences Reaching Audiences Beyond the Academic World

After five years of supporting research on reducing inequality, we’re proud of the body of work that grantees are producing and we're inspired by their efforts to inform thought and action beyond the...

Lenore Neier

Issue 06: Winter 2020-21

Can Policy Interventions Reduce Inequality? Looking Beyond Test Scores for Evidence

Learning how particular government policies affect families requires well-designed and well-coordinated mixed-methods research that pays attention to a variety of indicators of success.

Richard Murnane

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Lashawn Richburg-Hayes

MDRC

Issue 06: Winter 2020-21

Identifying and Testing Strategies to Improve the Use of Antiracist Research Evidence through Critical Race Lenses

Encouraging the use of evidence from antiracist research requires thinking differently about what is relevant, how antiracist perspectives are built into routines for using research, and what it...

Fabienne Doucet

Person

Fabienne Doucet

William T. Grant Foundation

From the Field

Webinar and Workshop: Advancing Methods and Measures for Studying the Use of Research Evidence

This half-day series, held in November 2020 in collaboration with the Forum for Youth Investment, includes an overview of four methodological approaches to studying the use of research, as well as a...

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Reducing Inequality through School Finance Reforms: Understanding the Mechanisms and Outcomes

How and why does school finance reform reduce inequality in educational resources for students of color and youth living in low-income families?

Min Sun, David Knight, Margaret Plecki and Christopher Candelaria

University of Washington

2021 – 2023
$324,967.00

Grant

Youth in Relation to Returned Land

How do Indigenous youth experience the return of land to the Ohlone community?

Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang and Corrina Gould

Sogorea Te' Land Trust

2021 – 2025
$743,658.00

Grant

Effectiveness of a Multi-System Leadership Strategy for Using Evidence During Sustainment of ASD Interventions

Will training in the use of research evidence enable mid-level leaders in education and mental health systems to sustain evidence-based interventions for children with autism?

Aubyn Stahmer, Anna Lau and Lauren Brookman-Frazee

University of California at San Diego

2021 – 2025
$1,148,264.00

Grant

School Bonding and Low-Income Students from Immigrant Families in a Peer-Mentoring Program

Can bilingual peer mentors foster feelings of attachment, commitment, and involvement in school in English language learners?

Melanie Gast and James S. Chisholm

University of Louisville

2021 – 2024
$49,985.00

Grant

Rethinking School Budgets: Principals’ Resource Allocation Decisions and the Promise of Equity

Can a financing system structured to provide students with the greatest educational need the highest distribution of resources improve test-based student achievement for English language learners,...

Christopher Candelaria

Vanderbilt University

2021 – 2022
$44,471.00

Grant

Math Tracking and Motivation in Black Students: Feedback Experiences and Racial Diversity as Levers of Change

How does math tracking influence Black students’ academic motivation and achievement?

Sharon Zumbrunn

Virginia Commonwealth University

2021 – 2024
$49,625.00

Grant

Using a Virtual, Culturally Based Parenting Program to Reduce American Indian/Alaska Native Child Welfare Inequality

Does a culturally-based parenting program that provides training in how to parent children from birth to age 13 help reduce child welfare inequalities for American Indian/Alaska Native communities?

Puneet Sahota

National Indian Child Welfare Association

2021 – 2025
$65,000.00

Grant

Transforming Evidence Network

This grant will support the launch of the Transforming Evidence Network.

Angela Bednarek and Christie Senft

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

2021 – 2026
$742,614.00

Grant

Going Home for the First Time: Indigenous Migrant Youth and Experiences of Binationality

How do Indigenous Triqui youth make meaning of their lives, their families, their experiences at school, the discrimination they face, as well as how they want to be portrayed, perceived, and treated?

Seth Holmes

University of California at Berkeley

2021
$5,749.00

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Forging Connections: Grantee Experiences Reaching Audiences Beyond the Academic World

Can Policy Interventions Reduce Inequality? Looking Beyond Test Scores for Evidence

Lashawn Richburg-Hayes

Identifying and Testing Strategies to Improve the Use of Antiracist Research Evidence through Critical Race Lenses

Fabienne Doucet

Webinar and Workshop: Advancing Methods and Measures for Studying the Use of Research Evidence

Reducing Inequality through School Finance Reforms: Understanding the Mechanisms and Outcomes

Youth in Relation to Returned Land

Effectiveness of a Multi-System Leadership Strategy for Using Evidence During Sustainment of ASD Interventions

School Bonding and Low-Income Students from Immigrant Families in a Peer-Mentoring Program

Rethinking School Budgets: Principals’ Resource Allocation Decisions and the Promise of Equity

Math Tracking and Motivation in Black Students: Feedback Experiences and Racial Diversity as Levers of Change

Using a Virtual, Culturally Based Parenting Program to Reduce American Indian/Alaska Native Child Welfare Inequality

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Going Home for the First Time: Indigenous Migrant Youth and Experiences of Binationality

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