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  • 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.

  • Susan Moore Johnson

    Senior Research Fellow
    Susan Moore Johnson is the Jerome T. Murphy Research Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

  • Rucker Johnson

    Senior Research Fellow
    Rucker Johnson is the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

  • Helen F. Ladd

    Senior Research Fellow
    Helen F. Ladd is the Susan B. King Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of Economics at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy.

  • Gloria Ladson-Billings

    Senior Research Fellow
    Gloria Ladson-Billings is a researcher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research and current President of the National Academy of Education.

  • Carol D. Lee

    Senior Research Fellow
    Carol D. Lee is the Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education in the School of Education and Social Policy and in African-American Studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

  • Henry Levin

    Senior Research Fellow
    Henry Levin is the William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

  • Ann Lieberman

    Senior Research Fellow
    Ann Lieberman, Professor Emeritus of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, is a Senior Scholar at the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and was previously a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

  • Milbrey McLaughlin

    Senior Research Fellow
    Milbrey McLaughlin is the David Jacks Professor Emeritus of Education and Public Policy at Stanford University.

  • Jal Mehta

    Senior Research Fellow
    Jal Mehta is a Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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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?