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Teaching Social Skills to Improve Grades and Lives

FIXES By DAVID BORNSTEIN JULY 24, 2015  In the early 1990s, about 50 kindergarten teachers were asked to rate the social and communication skills of 753 children in their classrooms. It was part of the Fast Track Project, an intervention and study administered in Durham, N.C., Nashville, Seattle and central Pennsylvania. The goals were to […]

William T. Grant Foundation Launches Initiative on Understanding Inequality

In recent years, inequality in the United States has become increasingly pervasive. At the same time,  social mobility has decreased. The William T. Grant Foundation believes  the research community can play a critical role in reversing these trends. To that end, the foundation, which seeks to improve the lives of youth between the ages 5 and […]

New study explores how teenagers understand inequality

By Connie Flanagan (originally posted at http://wtgrantfoundation.org/) Young people’s ideas about economic inequality have received scant attention in research despite the fact that we now have several generations for whom an unequal society with an eroding safety net is the world they’ve known. To gain some insights into teenagers’ theories about inequality, my colleagues and I […]