
Prof. Rucker Johnson
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Prof. Rucker Johnson
@ProfRucker
Economist & Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, UC-Berkeley; author, Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works https://t.co/8cGZTTzUyJ



📚New report alert!!📚California’s K-12 policies towards English Learners have changed A LOT in the last two decades (e.g., a new funding system, new instructional materials requirements). So, how have English Learner outcomes changed over that same time period?


🇺🇸 Oakland Teens Have Olympics In Mind ▫Gym near Fruitvale provides path to college, competitions ▫@Con_Chron ▫is.gd/rypiey 👈 #frontpagestoday #USA @sfchronicle 🇺🇸


The desire to know what freedom is and what it can be is the heart and soul of this college. Proving that a free nation is born in the hearts of men spellbound by fearlessness and freedom. That’s the magic of Morehouse. That’s the magic of America.




Congratulations Hilary Hoynes of @UCBerkeley, newly inducted #NASmember! #NAS161 #economics

#QJE May 2024, #1, “Wealth of Two Nations: The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860-2020,” by Derenoncourt (@EDerenoncourt), Kim (@ckim_econ), Kuhn (@kuhnmo), and Schularick (@Mschularick): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…


Congratulations to @pqblair, who has been promoted to associate professor! Learn more about his work on the link between the future of work and the future of education. gse.harvard.edu/ideas/news/24/…


New working paper w/@metrics52, @prof_parag, & @c_r_walt: "Race and the Mismeasure of School Quality" dropbox.com/s/ba8ziznpeo72… We use IV + centralized assignment data to study the relationship between school value-added, student race, and school performance ratings A short 🧵:


Congratulations to @Princeton's @EDerenoncourt, who has been named a 2024 recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship for early career researchers. bit.ly/3OPtb8h




