Research evidence can be a powerful resource for policymakers, agency leaders, organizational managers, and others who make high-stakes decisions that shape youth-serving systems. In addition to informing policy formation and service delivery, evidence from systematic research can deepen decision-makers’ understanding of issues, generate reliable assessment tools, support strategic planning, and guide program improvement. But only if it is used.
Become a certified teacher without leaving your job.
The ASU Teaching Fellows program is perfect for current paraeducators who want to become certified teachers while continuing to work in Arizona classrooms. This accelerated, cohort-based program is a great way to advance your career.
Teaching Fellows participants earn a bachelor’s degree and an institutional recommendation for teaching certification in the state of Arizona.
The Racial Equity Research Grants program supports education research projects that will contribute to understanding and disrupting racial inequality in education and work to reimagine generative possibilities to advance educational equity, with budgets up to $75,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. We accept Intent to Apply forms once a year.
Early Childhood Conference 2027
Save the date for the 8th Annual Early Childhood Conference, hosted by ASU's Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation!
This free, virtual conference invites all early childhood practitioners and advocates—including current students, alumni, educators, aides, and community members—to explore new and exciting work happening in the field of early childhood education (birth to age 8).
Limited Submission
This opportunity is being managed in partnership with the Provost office, all applications will need to be strategically selected by the Provost office. This is not a traditional limitation.
Limited Submission
The purpose of this program is to provide and build the national capacity of environmental education training for education professionals across the U.S., enabling them to effectively teach about environmental issues. Training may be provided for both formal (e.g., classroom teachers and faculty at colleges and universities) and non-formal educators (e.g., educators in museums, nature centers and other non-formal venues).
The Russell Sage Foundation, in collaboration with the Hewlett, Spencer, and William T. Grant foundations, seeks to support innovative research on the effects of the Supreme Court decision on a diversity of outcomes—from who attends college and where and the extent to which alternatives to race-conscious policies contribute to educational attainment and economic mobility among different groups in the population.
The Russell Sage Foundation’s program on Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration supports innovative investigator-initiated research that examines the roles of race, ethnicity, nativity, legal status —and their interactions with each other and other social categories—in the social, economic, and political outcomes for immigrants, U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities, and native-born whites.
For over 25 years, RSF has supported immigration research that has contributed to our understanding of (1) immigrant integration and intergenerational mobility, (2) political incorporation, and (3) the causes and consequences of immigration to new areas of settlement. Funded studies have shown the progress made by immigrants and their children, with immigrants becoming more like the U.S.-born over time, and with second and later generations becoming more like other U.S.-born citizens than their parents were.
The Russell Sage Foundation’s (RSF) core program on Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context merges its long-standing program on Behavioral Economics and its special initiative on