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The William T. Grant Foundation is an American non-profit foundation that funds research in the social sciences, with a particular focus on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in public policy and practice settings.
He was also the director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. [2] A particular focus of his research has been school structure, educational inequality, and school reform. [3] In 2013 he became the president of the William T. Grant Foundation, which funds social science research meant to improve the lives of young people. [3]
Education debt is a theory developed by Ladson-Billings to attempt to explain the racial achievement gap. As defined by Professor Emeritus Robert Haveman, a colleague of hers, education debt is the "foregone schooling resources that we could have (should have) been investing in (primarily) low income kids, which deficit leads to a variety of social problems (e.g. crime, low productivity, low ...
Unequal access to education in the United States results in unequal outcomes for students. Disparities in academic access among students in the United States are the result of multiple factors including government policies, school choice, family wealth, parenting style, implicit bias towards students' race or ethnicity, and the resources available to students and their schools.
In 2015 Tuck was selected as a William T. Grant Foundation Scholar (2015-2020). Her project for this $350,000 grant is titled "Migrant Youth, Deferred Action and Postsecondary Outcomes." [ 7 ] In addition to her research work Tuck is an Associate Professor in the department of Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto 's Ontario ...
Educational equity, also known as equity in education, is a measure of equity in education. [1] Educational equity depends on two main factors. The first is distributive justice , which implies that factors specific to one's personal conditions should not interfere with the potential of academic success.
Annette Patricia Lareau (born December 28, 1952) is a sociologist working at the University of Pennsylvania.. She has completed extensive field work studying the daily lives of African-Americans and European-Americans.
Global Partnership for Education, or GPE, functions to create a global effort to reduce educational inequality with a focus on the poorest countries. GPE is the only international effort with its particular focus on supporting countries' efforts to educate their youth from primary through secondary education.