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

The National Center for Research in Policy and Practice

and The National Network of Education Research-Practice Partnerships

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

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

Natalie De Rosa

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• Sep 16, 2024

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

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• Sep 10, 2024

A Note on Adam Gamoran’s Nomination as Director of the Institute of Education Sciences

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ICYMI: Four Takeaways from Our Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants Office Hour

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Resource Spotlight: Annotated Proposals for the Institutional Challenge Grant

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President’s Comment: Foundation Grantees at ASA 2024

Adam Gamoran

News

• Jul 15, 2024

Announcing $1.4 Million in Continuation Funding for Four Institutional Challenge Grantees

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• Jul 2, 2024

Welcoming Anne Gregory to the William T. Grant Scholars Selection Committee

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Recent Grants

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New York City Reducing Inequality Network (RIN)

This grant will provide an additional five years of funding to the Reducing Inequality Network, which supports sociology and social work doctoral students from underrepresented backgrounds whose research focuses on reducing inequality.

Dale Maglalang

New York University

2024 – 2029
$50,000

Grant

How State Policy Affects Racial/Ethnic and Gender Equity in Advanced Course-taking

Do state high school course-level graduation requirements reduce racial, ethnic, and gender inequalities in students’ advanced course-taking?

Jamie Carroll

Tulane University

2024 – 2027
$340,757

Grant

Reducing Administrative Burdens in Special Education and Re-Imagining Engagement of Im/migrant Multilingual Families to Enhance Equity for Students with Disabilities

How do special education policies and practices contribute to patterns of administrative burden faced by immigrant and migrant multilingual families and their children with disabilities?

Adai Tefera

University Of Arizona

2024 – 2026
$50,000

Grant

How do Mixed-Income Neighborhood Initiatives Reduce Educational Inequality for Low-Income Black Youth?

How do mixed-income neighborhood initiatives improve educational opportunities and outcomes for Black youth from low-income families

Sarah Lenhoff

Wayne State University

2024 – 2027
$600,000

Grant

Detecting Preventable Childhood Vision Loss and Barriers to Care in the Navajo Nation to Reduce Vision Health Disparities

Will assessing preventable childhood vision loss in the Navajo nation reveal inequalities that are amenable to targeted screening interventions?

Julius Oatts

University Of California, San Francisco

2024 – 2029
$350,000

Grant

Strategies And Conditions Facilitating And Hindering Education Law Attorneys’ Use of Research Evidence

How do professional networks shape evidence use among lawyers engaged in holistic legal youth advocacy?

Raquel Muñiz Castro

Boston College

2024 – 2029
$349,880.40

Grant

Child Policy Connect

This grant will enable the Society for Research in Child Development to establish Child Policy Connect, a program to improve evidence-based policymaking by building reliable and trusted relationships between researchers and policymakers in the United States.

Lindsay Trammell

Society For Research In Child Development

2024 – 2025
$80,000

Grant

Exploring the Role of Youth Advocacy in State Policymakers’ Use of Research Evidence for Eating Disorders Prevention

Does youth-led legislative advocacy improve evidence use in eating disorder prevention policy?

Amanda Raffoul

University Of Toronto

2024 – 2029
$349,749

Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2024 Weitzman and Turcios-Villalta

With this award, Weitzman will strengthen her ability to effectively mentor junior researchers of color, expand her instructional toolkit to better support student writing goals, and create routines to support timely responses to student inquiries and requests.

Abigail Weitzman

University Of Texas At Austin

2024 – 2026
$60,000

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