Improving Education and Reducing Inequality in the United States: Obtaining New Insights from Population-Based Academic Performance Data
Solicitation Title: Improving Education and Reducing Inequality in the United States: Obtaining New Insights from Population-Based Academic Performance Data
Funding Amount: Up to $20,000 for a faculty project | up to $7,000 for a graduate student project
Sponsor Deadline: Thursday, March 1, 2018
Solicitation Link: http://www.russellsage.org/funding/improving-education-and-reducing-inequality-united-states?utm_content=bufferdcb39&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Solicitation Number: Call for Proposals – Round 2
Overview
<p>We seek research projects that deepen our understanding of educational opportunity and success in the United States by using data on academic achievement from the Stanford Education Data Archive constructed by Sean Reardon and colleagues (<a href="http://seda.stanford.edu">http://seda.stanford.edu</a>).<br>New Data -- Using data on the results of roughly 300 million standardized achievement tests taken by roughly 45 million public school students from 2009 to 2015, Reardon and colleagues have constructed data files that provide estimates of the distribution of academic performance on a common scale in every public school district in the United States. Research Goals -- Studies that can plausibly identify the effects of policies, practices, and conditions on achievement inequality or the effects of achievement or achievement gaps on other outcomes and forms of inequality will be preferred over descriptive or correlational studies. We are particularly, though not exclusively, interested in studies aimed at understanding how to reduce inequality (educational inequality or subsequent forms of inequality).</p>
Solicitation Limitations: <p>Eligibility -- Applicants can be doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows or faculty who received their Ph.D. on or after August 31, 2010. We are particularly interested in promoting racial/ethnic, gender and disciplinary diversity and strongly encourage applications from scholars who are underrepresented in the social sciences.</p> Other Information:<p>Applications may be submitted by teams of researchers. The maximum funding for a faculty project will be $20,000. If a graduate student project has multiple students, we will consider funding up to $14,000. Decisions will be announced in early May. We expect to fund 5-7 proposals in this round.</p>Last Updated:
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