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How do historical, social, and economic factors within school districts affect their response to receiving a federal citation for racial disproportionality in special education?

Adai Tefera, Alfredo Artiles, Pedro Noguera and Catherine Voulgarides

New York University

2015 – 2016

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Financing the Policy Discourse: How Advocacy Research Funded by Private Foundations Shapes the Debate on Teacher Quality

How does foundation-funded research influence policies about teacher quality?

Sarah Reckhow and Megan Tompkins-Stange

Michigan State University

2015 – 2018

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Understanding the Diversity and Equity of a New Generation of Controlled School Choice Policies

How do school choice policies affect the racial and socioeconomic composition of schools?

Erica Frankenberg

Pennsylvania State University

2015 – 2016

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Erica Frankenberg

Pennsylvania State University

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What Might Evidence-based Policy 2.0 Look Like?

The early generation of evidence-based policy was largely about producing evidence and disseminating information to users. The field made enormous progress in the past decade, especially around “what...

Vivian Tseng

12/14/2014

From the Field

Q&A with John Laub: Understanding Inequality and the Justice System Response

John H. Laub is Distinguished Professor Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, College Park. From 2010 to 2013, Dr. Laub served as the Director of the National...

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12/3/2014

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John Laub

John H. Laub is Distinguished Professor Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, College Park. From 2010 to 2013, Dr. Laub served as the Director of the National...

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What Do Teenagers Think About Inequality?

Young people’s ideas about economic inequality have received scant attention in research despite the fact that we now have several generations for whom an unequal society with an eroding safety...

Constance Flanagan

From the Field

Understanding Inequality and the Justice System Response: Charting a New Way Forward

What do we know about inequality in the justice system? What can researchers do about it? John Laub, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of...

John Laub

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Constance Flanagan

Constance Flanagan is professor of Civil Society and Community Studies at the School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Pennsylvania State University

Grantee Voices

Show me the Evidence: President Obama’s Fight for Rigor and Results in Social Policy

In their new book, funded in part by the Foundation, Ron Haskins and Greg Margolis analyze how President Obama’s administration has incorporated rigorous evidence of program effectiveness into...

Ron Haskins and Greg Margolis

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Comparative Effectiveness of Narratives to Promote Provider Adoption of Evidence Related to Antipsychotics Use for High-Risk Youth

Will communicating research through narratives have a greater impact on clinicians’ prescribing behaviors than evidence-based guidelines?

David Rubin and Zachary Meisel

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

2014 – 2020

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Generating and Communicating the Most Effective Policy Responses to the Opportunity Gap

Robert Putnam will lead working groups of scholars and practitioners to develop research-informed responses for reducing class gaps in youth opportunities.

Robert Putnam

2014 – 2015
$256,306.00

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Qualitative Consulting Service for Supporting Mixed Method Research, WT Grant Scholars Program & Selected Current Grantees

This award will support a consultation service and workshop to extend grantees’ capacity to conduct research that integrates qualitative and quantitative methods.

Eli Lieber

University of California, Los Angeles

2014 – 2016
$118,496.00

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Leading and Managing i3-Funded Projects: New Perspectives on the “Practice of Educational Reform”

This project will leverage opportunities created by the i3 Learning Community to bring the perspectives of practicing educational reformers to bear on conversations about the use of evidence in...

Donald Peurach

2014 – 2015
$24,992.00

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