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In a recent interview we conducted with a congressional aide, she remarked that she was often inundated with research when working on a new policy issue. The aide’s primary goal in seeking out...

Itzhak Yanovitzky and Matthew Weber

2/12/2020

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

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

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Six New-York City Nonprofits Awarded Youth Service Improvement Grants

We are pleased to announce that the Foundation has awarded six community-based organizations in New York City $25,000 grants to improve the quality of their youth programs. The Youth Service...

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President’s Comment: Science Denial is Not the Whole Story, a Treatise in 14 Tweets

ICYMI: All of this @nytimes article about science denial is true — but it’s not the whole story. The whole story is worse in some ways, better than others. What accounts for when science...

Adam Gamoran

1/23/2020

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Four Finalists Selected for the 2020 Institutional Challenge Grant

We are very pleased to announce the finalists for the 2020 Institutional Challenge Grant. Launched in 2017, the Institutional Challenge Grant program encourages research institutions to build...

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Avoiding Confirmation Bias When Implementing Evidence-Based Instructional Practices

If we hope to train practitioners to use new interventions with fidelity, it may be necessary to first explicitly differentiate between previous and new instructional practices.

Barbara Davidson , Julie Greenberg and Susan Pimentel

1/9/2020

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Reducing Gaps in Educational Attainment – The Role of Remediation Reform in California Community Colleges

Do community college reforms that use high school records rather than placement tests reduce inequalities in course enrollment and success?

Olga Rodriguez

Public Policy Institute of California

2020 – 2021

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Who is Hearing “Youth Voice” Research? Strengthening the Use of Research Evidence from YPAR

Under what conditions do school and district decision makers use youth-generated research to inform policies and practices?

Emily Ozer, Benjamin Kirshner and Adam Voight

Cleveland State University

2020 – 2024
$544,640.00

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Olga Rodriguez

Public Policy Institute of California

Issue 05: Winter 2019-20

The Long Shadow: Considering How Racism Shapes Justice System Inequality and Efforts to Disrupt it

What is needed is not a one-off intervention, but an informed understanding of how racism makes its way into encounters between youth and police and a commitment to addressing the structural forces...

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

Six New-York City Nonprofits Awarded Youth Service Improvement Grants

President’s Comment: Science Denial is Not the Whole Story, a Treatise in 14 Tweets

Four Finalists Selected for the 2020 Institutional Challenge Grant

Avoiding Confirmation Bias When Implementing Evidence-Based Instructional Practices

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Reducing Gaps in Educational Attainment – The Role of Remediation Reform in California Community Colleges

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The Long Shadow: Considering How Racism Shapes Justice System Inequality and Efforts to Disrupt it

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