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Awarded Grants

Grant

Understanding the Role of Social Media in Perpetuating Racial Inequality in Higher Education

Can social media be leveraged to encourage White college students to confront racial discrimination?
Noelle Hurd
University Of Virginia
2017 – 2018
$49,936
Grant

Evidence in Education Lab: State Education Fellowship

This grant will support the development of a fellowship to guide senior state education agency officials in their implementation of the evidence provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Michele Jolin
Results For America
2017 – 2018
$50,000
Grant

Putting Immigration & Education in Conversation Everyday: Supporting Immigrant Students in a Changing Policy Environment

How are educators responding to the current immigration policy climate and anti-immigrant discourse to support immigrant students?
Rebecca Lowenhaupt
Boston College
2017 – 2019
$50,000
Grant

Can an informational intervention reduce race- and class-based gaps in AP course-taking?

Can an informational intervention increase Black, Latino, and low-income student participation in Advanced Placement courses?
Awilda Rodriguez
University Of Michigan
2017 – 2023
$350,000
Grant

Coordinated Knowledge Systems: Connecting Evidence to Action to Engage Students in School-Based Mental Health

Does the Coordinated Knowledge System intervention increase clinical supervisors’ use of research evidence in working with therapists and in therapists’ work with students?
Bruce Chorpita
University Of California, Los Angeles
2017 – 2023
$1,209,897
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2017 Hamilton and Lerma

Hamilton proposes to use this award as an opportunity to learn how to help her mentees identify resources that can speak to issues facing scholars of color and first-generation college students.
Laura Hamilton
University Of California, Merced
2017 – 2019
$60,000
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2017 Tuck and Wemigwase

Tuck would like to develop a mentoring framework that will inspire collaboration rather than competitiveness among young scholars.
Eve Tuck
University Of Toronto
2017 – 2021
$60,000
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2017 Yeager and Netter

Yeager aims to reorganize his lab to allow more time for mentoring and to learn more about mentoring across difference from faculty leaders of campus diversity initiatives at University of Texas at Austin.
David Yeager
University Of Texas At Austin
2017 – 2019
$59,999
Grant

Higher Education and Inequality: What Can We Really Do?

How can postsecondary education reduce inequality in economic and social mobility on the basis of socioeconomic status?
Sandy Baum
The Urban Institute
2017 – 2018
$25,000

Articles & More

Blog Post

Fostering Research Use in School Districts Through External Partnerships

When and under what conditions can a district central office learn from external partners for their improvement efforts? External partners, such as vendors, consultants, and researchers, can share materials and expertise to support instructional improvement efforts in districts. An increasing ...
Caitlin Farrell
 and Cynthia Coburn
Fostering Research Use in School Districts Through External Partnerships

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