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Recent Small Grant Awardees

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We are pleased to acknowledge the most recent projects funded through our Small Research Grants on Education program.

“Translanguaging as Resistance and Restoration: Languages and Literacies in a Bilingual Community Writing Program”
Stephanie L. Abraham and Kate E. Kedley
Rowan University Foundation, Inc.

“Academic Participation, Campus Climate and Democratic Engagement Among American Muslim College Students”
Arshad Imtiaz Ali
The George Washington University

“Gender Expression, Academic Social Ties, and LGBQ+ College Student Outcomes”
Irenee Beattie and Nella Van Dyke
University of California, Merced

“Teaching peace in a charged landscape: The democratic potential of peace education during Colombia’s peace process”
Michelle J. Bellino and Julia Paulson
University of Michigan

“Measuring the Bias in Predictive Models of Student Success”
Christopher Brooks and Florian Schaub
University of Michigan

“Investigating potential effects of different sources and types of support on the burnout trajectories of special education teachers serving students with emotional-behavioral disorders”
Nelson Brunsting
Wake Forest University

“Power to the Parents: Local Community Participation in Delhi Schools”
Emmerich Davies
Harvard University

“Development and Implementation of a Writer’s Workshop  in Elementary Bilingual Classrooms:  Three Years on an Elementary Dual Language Campus”
Tracey Terece Flores and Martha S. Doolittle
The University of Texas at Austin

“Changing Attributions to Improve Persistence of Women in STEM”
Gili Freedman and Melanie C. Green
St. Mary's College of Maryland

“School and Family Approaches to Race and Inequality”
Cari Gillen-O'Neel
Macalester College

“Improving Preservice Teacher Preparation to Address Student Mental Health”
Jennifer Greif Green, Melissa Holt, and Kathleen H. Corriveau
Boston University

“Globalizing American Students: How World History Textbooks Depicted the World, 1945-2010”
Stephen James Jackson
The University of Sioux Falls

“An Intersectional Perspective on the Nature and Development of Critical Consciousness among Adolescents and Young Adults”
Sara K. Johnson and Rachel Hershberg
Tufts University

“Cross-institutional study of ethnic and racial minority students’ readiness and preparedness for postsecondary online learning and the impact on student outcomes”
Tanya Joosten
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

“Making Challenging Text Accessible: Increasing Academic Achievement for Struggling Readers”
Melanie R. Kuhn
Purdue University

“Exclusionary School Discipline and Adult Conviction: An Exploratory Study”
Douglas Lee Lauen and Sarah Crittenden Fuller
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

““That’s Not Me”: Do Nerd-Genius Stereotypes Undermine Underrepresented Youth in pSTEM?”
Campbell Leaper
University of California, Santa Cruz

“Youth Collective Political Expression on Social Media:  Communication Within and Across Political Differences”
Ioana Literat and Neta Kligler Vilenchik
Teachers College, Columbia University

“The Impact of Class Absences on Student Achievement in Secondary School”
Jing Liu and Seth Gershenson
Brown University

“Exploring an Unexamined Source of Racial Disparities in School Discipline: Truancy Policies and Diversion Programs”
Clea Ann McNeely and Kristine Piescher
University of Tennessee Knoxville

“Anti-Racist Improvisational Pedagogy in Elementary School Settings: Challenges and Possibilities”
Erin T. Miller and Samuel Jaye Tanner
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Assessing Elementary Students’ Intrapersonal Social and Emotional Learning: Structure, Growth, and Importance for Achievement”
Jelena Obradovic
Stanford University

“When Does Education Promote Democratic and Civic Values? Evidence from Curriculum Reforms in Mexico, 1960-2010”
Agustina S. Paglayan and Francisco Garfias
University of California, San Diego

“Supporting novice teachers of ELLs through the examination of practice (STEP)”
Megan Madigan Peercy
University of Maryland at College Park

“Sensitivity Analysis for Causal Mediation Analysis in the Presence of Unmeasured Pretreatment or Posttreatment Confounding”
Xu Qin and Fan Yang
University of Pittsburgh

“Using Online Professional Development Modules to Support Practice-Based Coaching for Document-Based History Instruction: A Design Experiment”
Abby Reisman
University of Pennsylvania

“How Do Colleges Shape Latino Millennials’ Trajectories to Adulthood?”
Daisy Verduzco Reyes
University of Connecticut

“Understanding Student Aid among Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Students”
Jenna Sablan
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles

“Assessing Chinese-English Dual Language Learners’ Language Comprehension Using a Web-Based Platform”
Li Sheng
University of Delaware

“Parent-Adolescent Conversations about Education and School Engagement: A Study of Mexican-American Parental Academic Socialization”
Marie-Anne Suizzo
The University of Texas at Austin

“Philadelphia Reds: Communist Teachers in the City of Brotherly Love”
Nicholas Toloudis
The College of New Jersey

“Leading while Black (and Female): Exploring Microaggressions in the Lived Experiences of Black, Female School Leaders”
Jennie Weiner and Laura J. Burton
University of Connecticut

“Early Computational Thinking for All: Exploring the Mutually Supportive Nature of Mathematics and Computational Thinking in Fourth-Grade Classrooms”
David Weintrop and Janet Dawn Kim Walkoe
University of Maryland at College Park

“Schools for Democracy: Black Civic Organizations and the Quest for Education, 1890-1954”
Christine Woyshner
Temple University

 

 

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