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Trauma Responsive Educational Practices: CPS-TREP Project Collaborative

Can a school-wide intervention reduce the effects of trauma on the socio-emotional and academic outcomes of students in low-income communities with high rates of violence?

Micere Keels and Shanette Porter

Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

2018 – 2021

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Towards Democratizing Evidence: Assessing Engagement of Community-Based Groups in Research/Practice Partnerships

What are promising strategies for engaging community-based groups in research partnerships to promote the use of research evidence in educational decision making?

Ira Lit

Stanford University

2018 – 2019

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Understanding & Reducing Racial &Ethnic Disparities in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office: A Research Proposal

The CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance will collaborate with the Kings County District Attorney to demonstrate and understand trends and patterns resulting from Justice 2020, the DA’s...

Michael Jacobson

Research Foundation of the City University of New York

2018 – 2021
$299,905.00

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Micere Keels

Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, Chapin Hall Center for Children, The University of Chicago and University of Chicago

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Shanette Porter

Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, Chapin Hall Center for Children, The University of Chicago and University of Chicago

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Ira Lit

Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University and Stanford University

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Michael Jacobson

Research Foundation of the City University of New York

Grant Announcements

Ten New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas, Summer 2018

We are proud to announce ten new grants to support research on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people. Approved at the...

Grant Announcements

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

We are proud to announce ten new grants to support research on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people. Approved at the...

Grant Announcements

2018 Mentoring Grants to Support Junior Researchers of Color

Two research grantees and four William T. Grant Scholars have been awarded grants to support their development as mentors to junior colleagues. The awardees will mentor promising doctoral students...

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A Piece of the Puzzle for Promoting Educational Equity: Adults in Youth Organizing

Youth organizing efforts are opportunities for adults in key positions of leadership to hear, reflect on, and partner with youth to reduce inequity in schools for marginalized youth of color.

Elise M. Harris

7/17/2018

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Research Grantee David Yeager is Using a National Sample to Examine Variability in Intervention Effects

Research grantee David Yeager is studying whether an exercise that instills in students the idea that intelligence can be developed over time can reduce disparities in math achievement. While...

Foundation Staff

7/11/2018

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Crossroads: Reducing Inequality and Promoting Positive Youth Development by Understanding Juvenile Justice Processing

Does diverting first time youth offenders from the court system have long-term benefits as they transition to adulthood?

Elizabeth Cauffman

University of California at Irvine

2018 – 2021
$598,937.00

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Elizabeth Cauffman

Regents of the University of California, Irvine, University of California at Irvine, University of California, Irvine and University of Pittsburgh

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Reducing Digital Inequality by Empowering At-Risk Youth to be Resilient against Online Sexual Predation Risks

What factors help some low-income and racial-ethnic minority youth be more resilient to online sexual predation risks than others? What programs, policies, or technology-based interventions might...

Pamela Wisniewski

ICSI (International Computer Science Institute)

2018 – 2027
$350,000.00

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Evaluating Structural Strategies for Reducing Homophobic Bullying

Are litigation and agency enforcement of civil rights protections in schools effective in reducing homophobic bullying? If so, why are they effective, and for which schools?

Mark Hatzenbuehler

Harvard University

2018 – 2025
$350,000.00

Grant

Building the Evidence that Research Evidence Matters

Can a professional development intervention increase child welfare agencies’ use of evidence and improve permanency for children in foster care?

Fred Wulczyn, Lily Alpert and Kerry Monahan-Price

Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

2018 – 2024
$605,656.00

Grant

Unstable and Unpredictable Work Schedules and Child Development: Descriptive and Quasi-Experimental Evidence

What are the effects of having a parent who works a low-wage job with an unstable and unpredictable work schedule on child health and well-being? Are policies designed to reduce work schedule...

Daniel Schneider

Harvard University

2018 – 2023
$350,000.00

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Do School Disciplinary Structures Ameliorate or Exacerbate Inequality?

How do disciplinary practices in schools affect inequality, particularly on the basis of race and gender?

Anjali Adukia

The University of Chicago

2018 – 2023
$350,000.00

Grant

Creating More Equitable and Developmentally Attuned Disciplinary Environments for Adolescent Students

How can school discipline approaches be improved to reduce racial inequality and be more developmentally appropriate for adolescents?

Simone Ispa-Landa

Northwestern University

2018 – 2023
$350,000.00

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Trauma Responsive Educational Practices: CPS-TREP Project Collaborative

Towards Democratizing Evidence: Assessing Engagement of Community-Based Groups in Research/Practice Partnerships

Understanding & Reducing Racial &Ethnic Disparities in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office: A Research Proposal

Micere Keels

Shanette Porter

Ira Lit

Michael Jacobson

Ten New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas, Summer 2018

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

2018 Mentoring Grants to Support Junior Researchers of Color

A Piece of the Puzzle for Promoting Educational Equity: Adults in Youth Organizing

Research Grantee David Yeager is Using a National Sample to Examine Variability in Intervention Effects

Crossroads: Reducing Inequality and Promoting Positive Youth Development by Understanding Juvenile Justice Processing

Elizabeth Cauffman

Reducing Digital Inequality by Empowering At-Risk Youth to be Resilient against Online Sexual Predation Risks

Evaluating Structural Strategies for Reducing Homophobic Bullying

Building the Evidence that Research Evidence Matters

Unstable and Unpredictable Work Schedules and Child Development: Descriptive and Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Do School Disciplinary Structures Ameliorate or Exacerbate Inequality?

Creating More Equitable and Developmentally Attuned Disciplinary Environments for Adolescent Students

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