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Why Should We Study the Use of Research Evidence as a Behavior?

The frameworks and tools of behavioral science have significant potential to overcome persistent challenges regarding the measurement, tracking, and analysis of research evidence use.

Itzhak Yanovitzky

5/30/2018

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Measuring Research Use and The Promise of Big Data

Big-data can provide a means of measuring research use that provides significant insights with a favorable balance of costs and benefits.

Jennifer Neal and Zachary Neal

5/30/2018

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Federal Evaluation Forum: Expanding the Capacity to Use Research Evidence in Decision Making

This grant will support an effort to expand the use of research evidence in federal decision making.

Demetra Nightingale

The Urban Institute

2018 – 2021
$49,908.00

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American Sociological Association Sociology of Education Section Pre-Conference on Race, Racism, and Reducing Inequality

This grant will enable graduate students of color to attend the American Sociological Association Pre-Conference on Race, Racism, and Reducing Inequality organized by the Sociology of Education...

Jacob Hibel

University of California, Davis

2018
$14,893.00

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“Democratizing Evidence in Education,” from Connecting Research and Practice for Educational Improvement

In this chapter, Vivian Tseng, Steve Fleischman, and Esther Quintero explore what a more democratic evidence movement might look like in the years ahead. Discussing both efforts to build and use...

Vivian Tseng, Steve Fleischman and Esther Quintero

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Six Early Career Researchers Selected for 2018 Scholars Program

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2018 William T. Grant Scholars awards. Launched in 1982, the Scholars Program supports the professional development of promising researchers in the...

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Announcing the Foundation’s First Institutional Challenge Grantee

This grant challenges universities to reward faculty members whose research is directed to public service. The inaugural grantees will support research on one of our most vexing social problems, the...

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Three New-York City Nonprofits Awarded Youth Service Improvement Grants, Spring 2018

The William T. Grant Foundation is pleased to announce that it has awarded three community-based organizations in New York City $25,000 grants to improve the quality of their youth programs. The...

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Implementing State-Level Policy Reform to Eliminate School Discipline Disparities: A Mixed Methods Examination

Can a state-level policy initiative that targets school discipline disparities on the basis of race reduce inequality in student outcomes?

Jessika Bottiani and Catherine Bradshaw

University of Virginia

2018 – 2023

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Technical Assistance and Uses of Research Evidence in Child Welfare: What do we know and where do we need to go?

What technical assistance strategies support locally-relevant and sustained uses of research evidence among child welfare providers?

Allison Metz

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2018 – 2021

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Reducing Inequality Initiative – 2019 Grantee Meeting & Support

This grant will support the third annual convening of grantees in the Foundation’s focus area on reducing inequality, which was launched in February 2014.

Hillary Oravec

Youth Collaboratory

2018 – 2020
$218,375.00

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Catherine Bradshaw

Johns Hopkins University, The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia and University of Virginia

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New Rapid Response Research Grants Address Pressing Issues Facing Young People in the U.S.

The William T. Grant Foundation has awarded six Rapid Response Research Grants that will leverage research to address major challenges facing young people in the United States. These awards, the...

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What does youth civic engagement have to do with inequality?

By expanding and equalizing youth civic engagement, we can begin improve youth outcomes. Research helps by making diagnoses and solutions more rigorous and precise, but youth must be part of the...

Peter Levine

3/15/2018

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Can policies on foster care settings reduce racial and ethnic disparities in youth outcomes?

Fred Wulczyn and Amy Dworsky are investigating how the outcomes of youth in congregate care settings vary by state, and whether and how this variability contributes to racial and ethnic differences...

Foundation Staff

3/15/2018

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Amy Dworsky

Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

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Why Should We Study the Use of Research Evidence as a Behavior?

Measuring Research Use and The Promise of Big Data

Jennifer Neal

Zachary Neal

Federal Evaluation Forum: Expanding the Capacity to Use Research Evidence in Decision Making

American Sociological Association Sociology of Education Section Pre-Conference on Race, Racism, and Reducing Inequality

Demetra Nightingale

“Democratizing Evidence in Education,” from Connecting Research and Practice for Educational Improvement

Steve Fleischman

Six Early Career Researchers Selected for 2018 Scholars Program

Announcing the Foundation’s First Institutional Challenge Grantee

Three New-York City Nonprofits Awarded Youth Service Improvement Grants, Spring 2018

Implementing State-Level Policy Reform to Eliminate School Discipline Disparities: A Mixed Methods Examination

Technical Assistance and Uses of Research Evidence in Child Welfare: What do we know and where do we need to go?

Reducing Inequality Initiative – 2019 Grantee Meeting & Support

Catherine Bradshaw

New Rapid Response Research Grants Address Pressing Issues Facing Young People in the U.S.

What does youth civic engagement have to do with inequality?

Can policies on foster care settings reduce racial and ethnic disparities in youth outcomes?

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