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Dr. Sarah Reber
@econsarahreber
Rubenstein Fellow in Economic Studies @BrookingsEcon. Associate Professor of Public Policy @UCLALuskin. https://t.co/UnE1N3bC2B
Jul 23, 2021 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
@mattyglesias This is wrong. In 2018, 168 students were admitted to Merced through the mechanism she is describing (it is not a pathway to any other campus). This covers a lot of issues with the STTF report. See my part for a description of how UC admissions works. edpolicyinca.org/newsroom/uc-re… Image @mattyglesias Also, students still have to meet a-g requirements to be in the "referral pool. " No student is made eligible for admission to UC because big how they score on the sat, much less admitted...
Campuses can "admit by exception" to admit students who have not met a-g..
Jun 7, 2021 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
IMO, installing AC (& upgrading HVAC generally, but especially AC) is among the highest expected return investments in education right now and should be a priority of federal (and state) policy. 🧵 1/ We have direct evidence that heat impedes learning in relevant contexts from @JoshuaSGoodman & @rjisungpark + more general evidence that heat affects functioning + some understanding of mechanisms --> evidence stronger than usual that heat/AC matter for ed.
Feb 18, 2021 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
🚨New report out today @BrookingsEcon🚨

@indigenalysis & I look at COVID mortality rates for American Indians & Alaska Natives

It is devastating & heartbreaking

AIAN people are dying of COVID at high rates & young

brook.gs/3prpndF

🧵 AIAN ppl have the highest age-adjusted COVID death rate, almost 2.5x rates for whites and Asians.

Black and Latino death rates are also quite high. @TiffNFord @RichardvReeves & I wrote about that in June: brookings.edu/blog/up-front/…
Jun 28, 2019 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
School desegregation is in the news.

I have worked on these questions with @eucascio @NoraEGordon @ethanglewis!

A thread on some of the things we learned about the Federal role in deseg in the 50s, 60s, 70s.

(Many have written on this; I summarize some of my own work here.) Trends in segregation for districts in the former Confederacy

10 yrs after Brown (1964)
7% districts under Fed court supervision
26% districts had ANY black student in school with ANY white student
99% black students attended ALL-black sch

Where "leaving it to locals" got us