Grants

External and internal research funding. Amounts shown are total award values, not individual shares.

External Funding

2026–2028

From Access to Impact: Measuring How Middle-School Math Acceleration Builds Critical Skills that Predict Upward Mobility

Urban Institute Student Upward Mobility Initiative · Principal Investigator · $199,971

2026–2028

Pathways to Young Adulthood: The Effects of Contemporary Career and Technical Education on College-Going and Employment Outcomes of High School Students

Arnold Ventures · Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Steven Hemelt) · $493,311

2025–2027

Post-High School Returns to Intensified Math Education

Polynera Fund · Principal Investigator · $190,518

2025–2026

Measuring the Economic Benefit of the Integrated Pathways Framework

Gates Foundation · Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Darryl Hill) · $800,000

2024–2027

The Intersection of Choice and School Segregation: School District Policy Effects and Levers

American Institutes for Research (grantor) / Urban Institute (grantee) · Co-Principal Investigator (PI: James Carter III) · $1,360,014

2024–2025

Non-Cognitive and Long-Term Effects of KIPP Charter Schools

MIT Blueprint Labs Charter School Research Collaborative · Principal Investigator · $67,199

2022–2023

AERA–NSF Grants Program Dissertation Grant

American Educational Research Association · Dissertation Grantee · $27,500

2022–2023

Stackable Credentials in New Jersey: Mapping the Current Landscape

New Jersey Education to Earnings Data System Grant Program · Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Jeremy Wright-Kim) · $3,000

2017–2019

Schools, Neighborhoods, and the Transition to Adulthood: A Policy Lab with the Wake County Public Schools

Smith Richardson Foundation · Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Thurston Domina) · $242,025

2017–2019

Making Young Voters: Policy Reforms to Increase Youth Turnout

National Science Foundation · Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Sunshine Hillygus) · $335,690

2017–2019

Building Better Bridges to Life After High School: Experimental Evidence on Contemporary Career Academies

Spencer Foundation · Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Steve Hemelt) · $49,823

2015–2017

Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: A Randomized Control Trial of Multi-Tiered System of Supports

Laura and John Arnold Foundation · Principal Investigator · $74,321

Internal Funding

2025

Need-Based Financial Aid Programs: Evidence on Access, Participation, and Success

Florida State University Council on Research and Creativity, First-Year Assistant Professor (FYAP) Grant · $20,000

2022

Youth Civic Engagement and Participation

Harvard Radcliffe Institute Engaged Student Grant Program · $1,500

2020–2022

Partnering in Education Research (PIER) Fellowship

Harvard Graduate School of Education · $27,500

Fellowships

2021–2022

ECMC Foundation Postsecondary Career and Technical Education Research Fellow

2020

Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) Summer Fellow

2012–2014

Strategic Data Project Fellow, Center for Education Policy Research (Cohort 3)