UW-Madison alumnus Terrance L. Green is one of five early career researchers from across the nation to receive a 2020 William T. Grant Scholars award.
Launched in 1982, this program supports the professional development of promising researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences who have received their terminal degrees within the past seven years. Green received his PhD in 2013 from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.
Scholars receive $350,000 to execute rigorous five-year research plans that stretch their skills and knowledge into new disciplines, content areas, or methods. As they commence their projects, they build mentoring relationships with experts in areas pertinent to their development, and further their research and professional development through annual retreats and workshops with fellow Scholars, Foundation staff, and other senior researchers.
Green is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Texas. His research being supported by this new award will examine whether and how local racial equity policies can address persistent and unequal educational outcomes of black students.
Green’s three-phase study will: analyze 160 districts’ racial equity policies to determine whether policy components cluster in certain districts and the extent to which district characteristics predict classes that share similar racial equity policies; estimate the associations between racial equity policies and black students’ educational outcomes; and explore how racial equity policies were developed and implemented, as well the various school contexts that support their impacts.
Green is a qualitative researcher with expertise on school leadership, family-community engagement, and gentrification. To develop expertise in quantitative methods and content knowledge in educational policy analysis and effects, he will confer with an advisory panel on quantitative methods and meet monthly with his mentors, Robert Crosnoe, professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, and Janelle Scott, professor of education policy at the University of California, Berkeley.
To learn more about all of this year’s Grant Scholars award winners, check out this news release from the William T. Grant Foundation.