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Educator Practices in Immigrant-serving Schools: Responses to Shifting Immigration Policies across Contexts of Reception

How do public school educators respond to rapidly-changing immigration policies to better serve immigrant-origin students?
Rebecca Lowenhaupt
Boston College
2019 – 2023
$637,238
Grant

Social-Emotional Learning, School Outcomes, and Civic Engagement Equity: Leveraging Family and Community Influences

How can social-emotional learning practices promote civic engagement among Black and Latino youth?
Deborah Rivas-Drake
University Of Michigan
2019 – 2022
$565,882
Grant

Mind the Gap: Partnering to Narrow Denver’s Achievement Gaps by Retaining Top Teachers

The University of Colorado Boulder School of Education and the Denver Public Schools will partner to reduce racial achievement gaps by improving teacher quality.
Mimi Engel
University Of Colorado
2019 – 2025
$650,000
Grant

National Network of Education Research-Practice Partnerships

This award will continue the Foundation’s support for the National Network of Education Research-Practice Partnerships.
Ruth Turley
William Marsh Rice University
2019 – 2025
Grant

Creating online training for PLATO

This award will support the creation of an online training tool for researchers to use the Protocol for Language Arts Teaching Observation.
Pam Grossman
University Of Pennsylvania
2019 – 2021
Grant

Raising Academic Achievement in Under-Performing Schools through Improved Management: A Research-Practice Partnership

The University of Toronto and the Puerto Rico Department of Education will partner to produce and use evidence to improve school performance for youth in Puerto Rico.
Gustavo Bobonis
University Of Toronto
2019 – 2025
$649,999.05
Grant

Breaking the cycle of poverty and low expectations: How counseling activities predict college undermatch

What types of high-school counseling activities can help low-socioeconomic status students apply to colleges to which they are well-matched and thereby improve their college completion outcomes?
James Rosenbaum
Northwestern University
2019 – 2020
$50,000
Grant

Do Relative or Absolute Spending Levels Matter More? Progressive Funding Allocations and Low-Income Student Achievement

How do progressive school funding systems affect academic achievement in low-income school districts?
Nathan Favero
American University
2019 – 2021
$43,085

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Applying for the Institutional Challenge Grant: Proposing Strategies to Foster Institutional Change

In April 2019, the Foundation held a webinar, hosted by Institutional Challenge Grant selection committee members Adam Gamoran and Michael Gottfredson and senior program officer Kim DuMont, for a discussion of ...
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Applying for the Institutional Challenge Grant: Proposing Strategies to Foster Institutional Change
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  •  Apr 5, 2019

Two New Institutional Challenge Grants to Encourage Partnerships Between Universities and Public Organizations

The William T. Grant and Spencer Foundations are delighted to announce the winners of the 2019 Institutional Challenge Grant competition.
Foundation Staff
Two New Institutional Challenge Grants to Encourage Partnerships Between Universities and Public Organizations

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