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Reimagining Criminal Justice to Uplift Urban Communities: A Conversation on the Rikers Island Longitudinal Study

“People should not come out of [Rikers] more harmed than they were when they went in,” Bruce Western, a professor of sociology at Columbia University and the incoming president of the...

Natalie De Rosa

2/24/2025

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“A little bit of cash may help”: Grantees pilot nation’s largest guaranteed income program for child welfare system-involved families

Is poverty a root cause of child welfare system involvement? Researchers have long held this hypothesis, but rarely had an opportunity to test whether giving cash to poor families reduces their...

Natalie De Rosa

1/10/2025

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Future Directions for Research on Evidence Use in Policy: Insights from the Field

Evidence-informed policies have significant potential to improve population health outcomes, but despite efforts to increase the availability and accessibility of timely, credible, and relevant...

Itzhak Yanovitzky, Daniel Crowley and J. Taylor Scott

12/19/2024

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Making Youth and Families Matter in Policymaking: Strategies for Identifying, Approaching, and Engaging Policymakers

One of the biggest threats to youth and family policy is growing pessimism among scholars that engaging policymakers is worth their time and effort (Bogenschneider, Corbett, & Parrott, 2019). New...

Karen Bogenschneider

12/9/2024

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“I’m also a learner as a mentor”: An interview with mentoring grantee Bernadette Sanchez

Since 2005, the Foundation has awarded grants to William T. Grant Scholars and, since 2018, to research grantees to support their development as mentors to junior researchers of color. The program...

Natalie De Rosa

12/9/2024

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Reducing Segregation in New York City: Examining the Effects of Two District Policies on School Integration

Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Education, many U.S. school districts remain divided by race and class. Segregation is often particularly prevalent in large, urban school districts like New...

Amanda Schmidt, Talia Gerstle and Clemence Idoux

11/11/2024

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Research Alliances: Challenges and Opportunities in Supporting District Improvement

Over the past decades, research-practice partnerships (RPPs) have proliferated across the United States. In one common RPP design, the research alliance (RA), a group of researchers—typically...

Megan Duff, Joshua Glazer and Matthew Shirrell

11/11/2024

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No One-Size-Fits-All: A Context-Sensitive Approach to Research-Practice Partnership Health and Effectiveness

Introduction Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) involve long-term partnerships aimed at improving or transforming a wide-range of outcomes through collaboration and research inquiry across a...

The National Center for Research in Policy and Practice and The National Network of Education Research-Practice Partnerships

10/3/2024

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“Lifting Up Diverse Language Communities”: Three Grantees on Improving Outcomes for English Learners

“There’s a long way to go to providing agency and power to communities who are immigrant newcomers,” grantee Adriana Villavicencio told me during a recent conversation we had on...

Natalie De Rosa

9/16/2024

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“Much more can be done to protect Native families”: Expanding tribal sovereignty to reduce family separation

The US Government has a long and deeply harmful legacy of removing American Indian and Alaska Native children from their families. This practice, initially devised as a settler colonial strategy to...

Frank Edwards

6/5/2024

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“Nobody is listening to us”: Latinx immigrant youth perspectives on race, discrimination, and racial equity in schools

Immigration and U.S. Public Schools As U.S. schools grow more diverse, districts across the country have initiated racial equity plans to create inclusive environments for all students. I study how...

Sophia Rodriguez

4/25/2024

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Learning by Doing Together: Improving Education Policy in Puerto Rico through a Research-Practice Partnership

Puerto Rico’s public school system was facing a daunting process of reconstruction even before the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2017, the devastating force of Hurricane María...

Gustavo Bobonis, Emily Goldman, Orlando Sotomayor and Damarys Varela-Vélez

7/13/2023

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One on One Support: An Essential Aspect of the Youth Service Capacity-Grants Program

The Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants (YSCG) program supports activities to strengthen the organizational infrastructure of small nonprofit organizations in the five boroughs of New York City...

Foundation Staff

7/10/2023

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“Building the plane as we fly it”: Conducting research on inequality in a turbulent environment

This winter I attended the William T. Grant Foundation convening for the Reducing Inequality Grants program. As I attended each of the sessions and listened to my colleagues share their findings,...

Adriana Umana-Taylor

6/26/2023

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Power shifts: Expanding conceptual and methodological thinking about inequality

In reflecting on the Foundation’s convening of grantees and partners focused on research to reduce inequality in youth outcomes, I found myself thinking a lot about power as it relates to...

Rachel Farr

6/26/2023

Doing Research to Reduce Inequality

Theorizing Blackness, Indigeneity, and Racialization in Research on Reducing Inequality

The William T. Grant Foundation encourages research on reducing inequality that is grounded in well-theorized, rich conceptualizations of race, ethnicity, and Indigeneity (as well as other dimensions...

Foundation Staff

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Bringing Counseling to the Classroom Can Keep English Learners Connected to Community Colleges

New research finds that bringing counseling and advising services to the classroom can provide a critical connection to campus for immigrant and refugee newcomer students in ESOL programs.

Federick Ngo and Kristine Jan Cruz Espinoza

4/20/2023

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Integrating research evidence and equity concerns in the policy implementation process: Challenges and future directions

The role of research evidence in improving policy and practice outcomes has been a topic of public debate and focus of research for some time. To date, scholarship has focused largely on two evidence...

Jennifer Mosley

4/20/2023

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Toward lasting change: Supporting school district central offices’ use of research to address systemic educational inequities

Researchers and reformers in education and likely other arenas would do well to recognize how they are implicitly or explicitly defining “systemic” in their equity approaches and to understand some...

Meredith Honig

3/2/2023

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Partnering through Disruption: Responsive Research with Communities in Crisis

In 2018, when we launched our study, Putting Immigration and Education in Conversation Everyday (PIECE), it was a time of crisis for immigrant communities. Anti-immigrant policies, aggressive...

Rebecca Lowenhaupt

1/4/2023

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Reimagining Criminal Justice to Uplift Urban Communities: A Conversation on the Rikers Island Longitudinal Study

“A little bit of cash may help”: Grantees pilot nation’s largest guaranteed income program for child welfare system-involved families

Future Directions for Research on Evidence Use in Policy: Insights from the Field

Making Youth and Families Matter in Policymaking: Strategies for Identifying, Approaching, and Engaging Policymakers

“I’m also a learner as a mentor”: An interview with mentoring grantee Bernadette Sanchez

Reducing Segregation in New York City: Examining the Effects of Two District Policies on School Integration

Research Alliances: Challenges and Opportunities in Supporting District Improvement

No One-Size-Fits-All: A Context-Sensitive Approach to Research-Practice Partnership Health and Effectiveness

“Lifting Up Diverse Language Communities”: Three Grantees on Improving Outcomes for English Learners

“Much more can be done to protect Native families”: Expanding tribal sovereignty to reduce family separation

“Nobody is listening to us”: Latinx immigrant youth perspectives on race, discrimination, and racial equity in schools

Learning by Doing Together: Improving Education Policy in Puerto Rico through a Research-Practice Partnership

One on One Support: An Essential Aspect of the Youth Service Capacity-Grants Program

“Building the plane as we fly it”: Conducting research on inequality in a turbulent environment

Power shifts: Expanding conceptual and methodological thinking about inequality

Theorizing Blackness, Indigeneity, and Racialization in Research on Reducing Inequality

Bringing Counseling to the Classroom Can Keep English Learners Connected to Community Colleges

Integrating research evidence and equity concerns in the policy implementation process: Challenges and future directions

Toward lasting change: Supporting school district central offices’ use of research to address systemic educational inequities

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