Nashville PEER has received a $650,000 grant from the William T. Grant Foundation to study early post-secondary course opportunities (EPSOs) in Metro Nashville Public Schools and to design solutions for addressing inequities. Our team will work closely with MNPS to better understand the nature of disparities in EPSO participation and success, and to design and test interventions for reducing them.
I am very excited to be working with my Vanderbilt colleagues Marcy Singer-Gabella, Shaun Dougherty (now at Boston College), Daphne Penn, and Richard Welsh, and our many collaborators at MNPS (including co-PI Matthew Nelson) on this important work.
The WT Grant Foundation teamed with the Doris Duke Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and Bezos Family Foundation to support this work, through its Institutional Challenge Grant program.