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Reducing Racial Educational and Behavioral Disparities through Teacher Unconscious Bias Training

Can training teachers to address unconscious racial bias improve African American students’ academic and behavioral outcomes?

Colleen Halliday

Medical University of South Carolina

2020 – 2027
$599,059.00

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Family First Act Policy Research

How have states have begun to exercise the flexibility afforded by Family First Preventative Services Act and what evidence might become available in the future to assess the impact of the...

Harold Briggs

University of Georgia

2020 – 2024
$50,000.00

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NPR’s Collaborative Journalism Network

This award will support National Public Radio Collaborative Journalism Network, an effort to enhance capacity to report on issues affecting children, youth, and families within disadvantaged...

Blair Gage

National Public Radio

2020 – 2021
$25,000.00

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Reducing Gaps in Educational Attainment – The Role of Remediation Reform in California Community Colleges

Do community college reforms that use high school records rather than placement tests reduce inequalities in course enrollment and success?

Olga Rodriguez

Public Policy Institute of California

2020 – 2021
$420,778.00

Issue 05: Winter 2019-20

The Long Shadow: Considering How Racism Shapes Justice System Inequality and Efforts to Disrupt it

What is needed is not a one-off intervention, but an informed understanding of how racism makes its way into encounters between youth and police and a commitment to addressing the structural forces...

Nikki Jones

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Geoffrey Raymond

Regents of the University of California, Santa Barbara, University of California at Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Santa Barbara

Issue 05: Winter 2019-20

No Small Matters: Reimagining the Use of Research Evidence From A Racial Justice Perspective

We can no more afford methodologically rich research studies that lack racial consciousness than we can afford racially conscious studies that lack methodological rigor.

David Kirkland

Issue 05: Winter 2019-20

Shifting the Lens: Why Conceptualization Matters in Research on Reducing Inequality

To begin shifting the underlying structures of inequality, scholars can harness the power of rigorous research to produce innovative, ground-breaking research that might further upend the narratives...

Jenny Irons

Issue 05: Winter 2019-20

Centering the Margins: (Re)defining Useful Research Evidence Through Critical Perspectives

Improving the use of research evidence will require ensuring usefulness—and use—toward ends that are congruent with the goals and visions that marginalized communities have for their self-determined...

Fabienne Doucet

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David Kirkland

New York University

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Building Consensus: Idea Brokerage in Teacher Policy Networks

Abstract We show how policy makers converged to support similar reforms on a major educational issue: teacher effectiveness. Our study demonstrates the importance of idea brokers—actors that...

Sara Galey-Horn, Sarah Reckhow, Joseph A. Ferrare and Lorien Jasney

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All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference

This award will support the All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference.

Chris Benner and Steve McKay

University of California, Santa Cruz

2019 – 2022
$10,000.00

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Sarah Reckhow

Michigan State University

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Chris Benner

Regents of the University of California, Santa Cruz and University of California, Santa Cruz

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Steve McKay

Regents of the University of California, Santa Cruz and University of California, Santa Cruz

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Ten Finalists Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Program

We are pleased to announce the finalists for the 2020 William T. Grant Scholars Program. Ten early-career researchers were selected from a pool of 62 applicants after a rigorous review by our staff...

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Vivian Tseng on “No Jargon” Podcast, Episode 197: Making Research Matter

Vivian Tseng joins the Scholars Strategy Network No Jargon podcast to talk about how research has traditionally been used to shape education policy in the U.S. and how more recent approaches may pave...

Foundation Staff

Blog Post

How School Finance Research Can Sharpen the Debate, Strengthen Policy, and Improve Student Outcomes

New research has the potential not only to shape the school finance debate in years ahead, but improve policies and ultimately reduce inequalities in student opportunities and outcomes.

Robert Kim

11/5/2019

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Robert Kim

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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Building Teachers’ Race-Related Competencies to Promote Youth Ethnic-Racial Identity and Reduce Academic Inequalities

How might teachers’ abilities to promote adolescents’ ethnic-racial identity development be increased to ultimately reduce academic disparities?

Adriana Umana-Taylor

Harvard University

2019 – 2022
$299,996.00

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Family First Act Policy Research

NPR’s Collaborative Journalism Network

Reducing Gaps in Educational Attainment – The Role of Remediation Reform in California Community Colleges

The Long Shadow: Considering How Racism Shapes Justice System Inequality and Efforts to Disrupt it

Geoffrey Raymond

No Small Matters: Reimagining the Use of Research Evidence From A Racial Justice Perspective

Shifting the Lens: Why Conceptualization Matters in Research on Reducing Inequality

Centering the Margins: (Re)defining Useful Research Evidence Through Critical Perspectives

David Kirkland

Building Consensus: Idea Brokerage in Teacher Policy Networks

All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference

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Steve McKay

Ten Finalists Selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Program

Vivian Tseng on “No Jargon” Podcast, Episode 197: Making Research Matter

How School Finance Research Can Sharpen the Debate, Strengthen Policy, and Improve Student Outcomes

Robert Kim

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