Jacob Jackson
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Jacob Jackson
Director of Research Partnerships, California Education Lab,
University of California, Davis
Jacob Jackson is director of research partnerships at the California Education Lab, UC Davis School of Education. He supports strategic partnerships with key education leaders, institutions, and foundations providing funding for the Lab’s research initiatives. He also researches student success and education policies across the educational pipeline. Jackson received an MEd in curriculum and instruction from the University of Missouri–Columbia and a PhD in education from UC Davis. Before his career in research, he was a middle school and high school mathematics teacher.
updated 2026
Publications by Jacob Jackson
The Role of Schools in Math Course-Taking
This brief examines how schools shape math course-taking among California high school students. It finds that 12th-grade math enrollment has declined in about two thirds of high schools in recent years, with differences tied to school size and…