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  •  Apr 9, 2018

Announcing the Foundation’s First Institutional Challenge Grantee

This grant challenges universities to reward faculty members whose research is directed to public service. The inaugural grantees will support research on one of our most vexing social problems, the opioid crisis, in a partnership that is poised to take ...
Foundation Staff
Announcing the Foundation’s First Institutional Challenge Grantee
News
  •  Jan 11, 2018

Announcing the 2018 Institutional Challenge Grant Finalists

The William T. Grant Foundation is very pleased to announce the finalists for its new grant program, the Institutional Challenge Grant. Launched in March of 2017, the Institutional Challenge Grant encourages research institutions to build long-term research-practice partnerships with public agencies...
Foundation Staff
Announcing the 2018 Institutional Challenge Grant Finalists
Digest, Issue 03: Winter 2017-18

The Next Big Leap for Research-Practice Partnerships: Building and Testing Theories to Improve Research Use

Research-practice partnerships and RPP funders are positioned to move education into the next frontier, but to do so they will need to complement their attention to evidence production with an ...
Vivian Tseng
The Next Big Leap for Research-Practice Partnerships: Building and Testing Theories to Improve Research Use
Publication

Assessing Research-Practice Partnerships: Five Dimensions of Effectiveness

While research-practice partnerships have emerged as a promising means of creating and applying relevant research evidence in settings where young people grow and learn, we’ve lacked definition in terms of what constitutes an effective partnership and how RPPs, funders, ...
Erin Henrick
,
Paul Cobb
,
William Penuel
,
Kara Jackson
,
and Tiffany Clark
Assessing Research-Practice Partnerships: Five Dimensions of Effectiveness
Blog Post

Creating Partnerships: Learning New Ways to Connect

Building an RPP is hard work. They are complex organisms, with structures, processes, and roles that evolve as partnerships mature and adapt. However they form, we have observed five elements that seem to come together in successful partnerships.
John Easton
,
Lauren Supplee
,
and Vivian Tseng
Creating Partnerships: Learning New Ways to Connect
Publication

Research–Practice Partnerships in Education Outcomes, Dynamics, and Open Questions

Policymakers, funders, and researchers today view research–practice partnerships (RPPs) as a promising approach for expanding the role of research in improving educational practice. Although studies in other fields provide evidence of the potential for RPPs, studies in education are ...
Cynthia Coburn
 and William Penuel
Research–Practice Partnerships in Education Outcomes, Dynamics, and Open Questions
Blog Post

To Study Conceptual Use of Research, Consider Tradeoffs Among Methods

Research works in subtle ways to influence policy decisions and practice. Bill Penuel and Anna-Ruth Allen outline three approaches that can help identify the uptake of ideas from research in practice.
Anna-Ruth Allen
 and William Penuel
To Study Conceptual Use of Research, Consider Tradeoffs Among Methods
Blog Post

Evidence at the Crossroads Pt. 3: Research-Practice Partnerships, the Future of the Evidence Movement

As the evidence movement matures, it is increasingly clear that we need to build on lessons not only from clear successes, but also from interventions that have not worked. Neither ...
Gordon Berlin
 and Rekha Balu
Evidence at the Crossroads Pt. 3: Research-Practice Partnerships, the Future of the Evidence Movement
Blog Post

Knowledge Neighborhoods: Building the Infrastructure for Evidence-Based Practice in Mental Health

Instead of thinking of research and practice as a point A and point B journey, we might instead think of traveling around a neighborhood. The best neighborhoods have the infrastructure ...
Bruce Chorpita
Knowledge Neighborhoods: Building the Infrastructure for Evidence-Based Practice in Mental Health
Blog Post

Research-Practice-Policy Partnerships for Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices in Child Welfare and Child Mental Health

Partnerships between researchers, practitioners, and policymakers represent a promising avenue for improving outcomes for young people and families. In this report, Lawrence Palinkas, Cherry Short, and Marleen Wong of the ...
Lawrence Palinkas
,
Cherry Short
,
and Marleen Wong
Research-Practice-Policy Partnerships for Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices in Child Welfare and Child Mental Health

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