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What Higher Education Leaders are Doing in Times of Escalating Immigration Enforcement: Study Insights and Directions for Research

Federal actions in the second Trump administration have placed higher education institutions at a critical crossroads as they navigate how best to support undocumented and international students...

H. Kenny Nienhusser, Milagros Castillo-Montoya, Jillian Ives, Adam McCready and Franklin Tuitt

4/23/2026

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

How do we repair the relationships that hold together urban communities?

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

Can improving families’ material conditions through cash transfers help prevent instances of child maltreatment?

Natalie De Rosa

1/10/2025

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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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“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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“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...

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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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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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“The system makes it hard for them:” Exploring the challenges and strategies for schools in supporting newcomer unaccompanied immigrant youth

Newcomer unaccompanied youth in the U.S. The United States defines an unaccompanied minor as an immigrant who is under the age of 18 and not in the care of a parent or legal guardian at the time of...

Sophia Rodriguez

11/30/2021

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Under pressure: Investigating how system-level factors shape racial inequality in child welfare outcomes

Although there are dots that have yet to be linked explicitly, the connection between fee-for-service reimbursement models and supply-induced demand is the sort of explanation one should expect to...

Fred Wulczyn

9/16/2021

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Funder to Funder Webinar: Reducing Inequality for LGBTQ Youth and Families

LGBTQ youth face disproportionate levels of harassment, bullying, depression, and substance abuse compared to non-LBGTQ peers. What is the current evidence on ways to reduce these inequalities and...

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Webinar: Proposing Studies of Strategies to Address Structural Roots of Inequality

In this webinar, recorded on November 9, 2020, Program Officer Jenny Irons discusses the Foundation's focus on reducing inequality and shares guidance for prospective applicants interested in...

Foundation Staff

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Connection as Empowerment: How Social Bonds can Reduce the Effects of Poverty and Racism on Youth

As evidence continues to mount regarding the central role of close human connection to everything from our mental health to how long we live, the idea that we can use the endogenous capacity for...

Joseph Allen

8/6/2020

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Fostering Equitable and Effective Use of Digital Tools in K-12 Classrooms

Digital educational tools are touted for their promise in increasing equitable access to enhanced learning opportunities and improving educational outcomes for K-12 students. Yet there is a growing...

Carolyn Heinrich, Jennifer Darling-Aduana and Annalee Good

6/29/2020

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Close to the edge: Service workers and their children at the front lines of a crisis

As the shock of the current health and economic crisis takes a heavy toll on millions of Americans employed in the service sector, we must remember that millions of children are also vulnerable to...

Daniel Schneider and Kristen Harknett

4/2/2020

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Lead Remediation: A Surprising Policy Solution for Reducing the Educational Achievement Gap

In June 2019, Michigan’s Attorney General dismissed all criminal cases connected to the Flint water crisis. This crisis, which hit the headline news in early 2016, exposed as many as 8,000...

Lucy Sorenson, Erika Martin, Ashley Fox and Heyjie Jung

9/3/2019

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What Higher Education Leaders are Doing in Times of Escalating Immigration Enforcement: Study Insights and Directions for Research

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

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

“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

“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

Partnering through Disruption: Responsive Research with Communities in Crisis

“The system makes it hard for them:” Exploring the challenges and strategies for schools in supporting newcomer unaccompanied immigrant youth

Under pressure: Investigating how system-level factors shape racial inequality in child welfare outcomes

Funder to Funder Webinar: Reducing Inequality for LGBTQ Youth and Families

Webinar: Proposing Studies of Strategies to Address Structural Roots of Inequality

Connection as Empowerment: How Social Bonds can Reduce the Effects of Poverty and Racism on Youth

Fostering Equitable and Effective Use of Digital Tools in K-12 Classrooms

Close to the edge: Service workers and their children at the front lines of a crisis

Lead Remediation: A Surprising Policy Solution for Reducing the Educational Achievement Gap

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