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Education policy includes laws as well as processes and policies that educational organizations, local districts, states, and nations put in place and follow to achieve academic goals. RAND analyses have informed education policy in the United States, United Kingdom, Qatar, and many other countries.

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Surges in Undocumented and Asylum-Seeking Children Prompt Need for Better K–12 Policies

Sep 30, 2021

Growing numbers of children from Central America and Mexico are arriving in the United States. As of March 2020, 321,000 undocumented and asylum-seeking children were enrolled in public schools. How are the schools managing, and what could be done to help them better prepare to assist these students?
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Anti-Bias Education in U.S. Public Schools

Feb 22, 2022

Teaching students explicitly about issues of identity, diversity, equity, and bias can lead to positive outcomes. Nearly three in four K–12 teachers reported that they provide such anti-bias instruction, but more than half said that their school's or district's curriculum materials did not adequately address anti-bias topics.

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Susan M. Gates

Director, Office of Research Quality Assurance; Senior Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Education Ph.D. in economic analysis and policy, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University; M.A. in Russian and Eastern European studies, Stanford University; A.B. in mathematical economics, Brown University
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Charles A. Goldman

Senior Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Education Ph.D. in economic analysis and policy, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University; S.B. in computer science and engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Celia J. Gomez

Codirector, Center for Qualitative and Mixed Methods; Policy Researcher; Faculty Member, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Education Ed.D. in human development and education, Harvard University; Ed.M. in prevention science and practice, Harvard University; B.A. in psychology and African American studies, Yale University
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Heather Gomez-Bendaña

Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND; Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Education M.P.H. in health promotion and disease prevention, Florida International University; B.S. in biological sciences, Florida State University
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Lucas Greer

Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND; Ph.D. Student, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Education M.P.A. in public administration, The Ohio State University; M.A. in economics, University of Virginia; B.S. in economics, Le Moyne College
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Salil Gunashekar

Associate Director (Science and Emerging Technology, RAND Europe)
Education Ph.D. in wireless communications engineering, University of Leicester; M.Sc. in information and communications engineering, University of Leicester; M.Sc. in informatics, University of Delhi; B.Sc. (Hons) in physics, University of Delhi (St Stephen's College)
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Mark Reed

Research Assistant
Education M.Sc. in social policy and social research (with systematic reviews), University College London; B.A. in law and sociology (qualifying degree), University of Warwick
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Claudia Rodriguez

Assistant Policy Researcher; Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Education M.S. in applied mathematics for the life and social sciences, Arizona State University; B.S. in mathematics, Arizona State University
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Claude Messan Setodji

Senior Statistician
Education Ph.D. in statistics, University of Minnesota
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Troy D. Smith

Associate Economist; Professor of Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Education Ph.D. in economics, Stanford University
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Brian M. Stecher

Adjunct Social Scientist
Education Ph.D. in education, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A. in mathematics, University of Oregon; B.A. in mathematics, Pomona College
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Elizabeth D. Steiner

Policy Researcher; Affiliate Faculty, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Education M.S.P.P.M. in public policy administration and analysis, Carnegie Mellon University; B.A. in psychology, Vassar College
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Melissa Kay Diliberti

Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND; Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Education M.P.P., The George Washington University; B.A. in political science and international studies, University of Michigan
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Sy Doan

Associate Policy Researcher
Education Ph.D. in K–12 educational leadership and policy studies, Vanderbilt University; B.A. in English, University of Notre Dame
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Christopher Joseph Doss

Policy Researcher
Education Ph.D. in economics of education, Stanford University; M.A. in economics, Stanford University; M.Ed. in teaching at the secondary level, Harvard University; B.S. in chemistry, Brown University
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Rafiq Dossani

Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy; Senior Economist; Professor of Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Education Ph.D. in finance, Northwestern University; M.B.A. in finance & economics, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta; B.A. in economics, St. Stephen's College, Delhi
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Christian van Stolk

Executive Vice President, RAND Europe
Education Ph.D. in government, London School of Economics; M.A. in international relations and international economics, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
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Fatih Unlu

Director of Labor, Workforce Development, and Postsecondary Education Program; Senior Economist
Education Ph.D. in economics, Princeton University; M.A. in economics, Princeton University; B.S. in electrical engineering, Bilkent University
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Katie Tosh

Adjunct Policy Analyst
Education M.P.H. in public health, Tulane University; B.A. in environmental studies, University of North Carolina; B.A. in Spanish, University of North Carolina; Certificate in nonprofit management and leadership, Tufts University
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Elaine Lin Wang

Policy Researcher
Education Ph.D. in learning sciences and policy, University of Pittsburgh; M.A. in curriculum, teaching, and learning, University of Toronto; B.Ed. in secondary English and French education, University of British Columbia; B.A. in English and French, University of British Columbia

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