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  • David Berliner

    Senior Research Fellow
    David Berliner is Regents’ Professor of Education Emeritus at Arizona State University. 

  • Prudence Carter

    Senior Research Fellow
    Prudence Carter is the Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. 

  • Jennifer Eberhardt

    Senior Research Fellow
    Jennifer Eberhardt is the Morris M. Doyle Centennial Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Psychology, and Co-Director of SPARQ, a university initiative to use social psychological research to address pressing social problems, at Stanford University.

  • Michael Fullan

    Senior Research Fellow
    Michael Fullan is Professor of Education Emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and is Special Advisor on Education to the Premier of Ontario. 

  • Patricia Gándara

    Senior Research Fellow
    Patricia Gándara is Research Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences at UCLA and Co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA.

  • Howard Gardner

    Senior Research Fellow
    Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and serves on the Steering Committee of Harvard’s Project Zero.

  • Gene Glass

    Senior Research Fellow
    Gene Glass is Research Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a Senior Researcher in the National Education Policy Center.

  • Kenji Hakuta

    Senior Research Fellow
    Kenji Hakuta is the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University and Co-Chair of the Understanding Language Initiative.

  • Clement Kirabo Jackson

    Senior Research Fellow
    Clement Kirabo Jackson is Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy at the Institute for Policy Research and an Associate Professor in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University.

  • Rucker Johnson

    Senior Research Fellow
    Rucker Johnson is Associate Professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley.

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Closing the Opportunity Gap: How Positive Outlier Districts in California Are Pursuing Equitable Access to Deeper Learning

Sep 10 2019
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This report examines the commonalities among seven diverse "positive outlier" school districts in which students are achieving at higher-than-predicted levels. The seven districts are among more than a hundred California school districts in which African American, Latino/a, and White students achieved at higher-than-predicted levels, controlling for their socioeconomic status.
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Preparing Teachers to Support Social and Emotional Learning

May 21 2019
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Well-implemented programs designed to foster social and emotional learning (SEL) are associated with positive outcomes, ranging from better test scores and higher graduation rates to improved social behavior. This LPI study examines San Jose State University's successful teacher preparation program and a California school district's in-service program that incorporate SEL instruction in an effort to inform policymakers, practitioners, and teacher educators about the components of strong, SEL-focused teacher preparation and development systems. 
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California’s Positive Outliers: Districts Beating the Odds

May 16 2019
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LPI studied 156 California school districts of significant size in which students of color, as well as White students, consistently achieve at higher levels than students from similar racial, ethnic, and economic backgrounds. What are these "positive outliers" doing to raise achievement and support students of all backgrounds?