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We are always learning. These reports and studies help inform our grantmaking.
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April 16, 2024By 2025 Gen Alpha will become the largest generation yet, making up 2 billion of the world’s population. This generation is also the first to grow up at a time when play and creation cross fully into the metaverse. This trend is called creation gaming, where players build their digital world as much as they play in it.
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April 10, 2024Learning what makes Gen Z happy is essential to understanding this generation, their needs, and how we can better support them.
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January 10, 2024When seeking out an evaluation partner, finding the right match is a challenge for both parties — the commissioner and the evaluator.
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December 13, 2023Successfully addressing vital social issues — like the movement for racial justice and addressing climate crises — requires large-scale initiatives that address equity, complexity and systems. This report offers ways of grouping systems change outcomes and helpful ways of thinking about complex social change work.
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December 5, 2023For the past year, the Walton Family Foundation has surveyed Gen Z to better understand their desires and hopes for the future. Our latest Gen Z poll with Gallup Research dives into the perspectives of GenZers on STEM education.
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November 21, 2023This report examine the foundation's current grantee capacity-building practices and provides recommendations for enhancing the foundation’s approach.
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November 9, 2023The Walton Family Foundation partnered with Impact Research to ask parents of K-5 students to share how well their children learned to read and what they think of the current debate about reading instruction.
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September 14, 2023New survey gives policymakers and researchers an invaluable resource to understand this generation’s needs and take action to address them
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July 18, 2023New research from the Walton Family Foundation and Impact Research shows that at this critical moment for students, teachers are turning to new technologies like ChatGPT as a tool to enhance teaching and learning.
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June 29, 2023The Walton Family Foundation and HIT Strategies conducted a survey asking Black students to reflect on their schools’ performance in three key issue areas: career readiness, mental health, and belonging.
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May 16, 2023A new poll of K-12 parent voters nationwide shows a strong appetite for change in education.
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March 20, 2023The Alliance for Learning Innovation’s 2024 Federal Policy Recommendations
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March 1, 2023New research from the Walton Family Foundation affirms that educators are driving innovation when it comes to integrating Open AI’s ChatGPT tool into their classrooms.
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February 5, 2023A new report shares insight into how Generation Z envisions their futures and what they expect from public and private institutions.
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February 3, 2023The Walton Family Foundation has been on a learning journey for several years now. We have had successes, setbacks and detours. Our central insight so far: becoming a learning organization requires taking a systems-change view and applying it to our own work.
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December 4, 2022For parents, as awareness of pandemic-fueled academic and mental health challenges grows, so does their desire for bold change in our schools
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October 26, 2022How did parents' mindsets and priorities for their child’s education change as a result of the pandemic?
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September 13, 2022How high schoolers are feeling as the school year begins and the midterm election campaign heats up