The Institutional Challenge Grant: Community-Engaged Research to Improve Youth Educational Outcomes

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium features four recipients of the Institutional Challenge Grant from the William T. Grant Foundation. The grant has four goals for grantees: 1) strengthen an existing research practice-partnership with a non-profit organization or public agency, 2) pursue a joint research agenda to reduce inequalities in youth outcomes, 3) enhance the capacity of both partners to produce and use research evidence, and 4) create institutional change at the university to value engaged research. This moderated panel will highlight how partnerships working across K-12 and post-secondary educational contexts navigate challenges to conduct actionable research and create conditions more favorable for evidence use and for rewarding research that makes a difference.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Research Use

Chair

• Jenny Irons, William T. Grant Foundation

Papers

• Raising Academic Achievement in Under-Performing Schools through Improved Management: A Research-Practice Partnership - Gustavo J. Bobonis, University of Toronto; Tania Morales Morales, Puerto Rico Department of Education

• Understanding and Intervening on Inequities in Chronic Absenteeism and its Consequences among High School Students - Emily Ozer, University of California - Berkeley; Devin Corrigan, San Francisco Unified School District

• Reducing Inequities in Postsecondary Debt and Repayment through a Multi-Sector Research-Practice Partnership - Jonathan Smith, Georgia State University; Samuel Jones Rauschenberg, Achieve Atlanta

• University Research Partnerships to Reduce Educational Disparity in College Towns: Building a Model in Tallahassee, FL - Nicole Patton-Terry, Florida State University

Discussant

• Jenny Irons, William T. Grant Foundation