Lucrecia Santibañez

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Lucrecia Santibañez
Professor, School of Education and Information Studies,
University of California, Los Angeles

Lucrecia Santibañez is a professor in the School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She was previously an economist at the RAND Corporation and taught at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City and the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas in El Salvador. Her research focuses on understanding and improving teaching and learning for low-income, English learner-classified, and other vulnerable student populations in the United States, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Her work has been published in Educational Researcher, Economics of Education Review, Journal of Teacher Education, Teachers College Record, and Review of Educational Research. She has led research funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, National Science Foundation, Spencer Foundation, WT Grant Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Inter-American Development Bank, and the World Bank. Santibañez earned a PhD in education from Stanford University.

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Publications by Lucrecia Santibañez
Lessons for COVID-19
This brief discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on student absenteeism and academic and social-emotional outcomes using panel data from California's CORE Districts. Absenteeism has a negative effect on student outcomes, with math being more…
California aims to improve the quality of teaching in its classrooms by focusing on teacher preparation and evaluation. The state's teacher preparation system aligns with standards but lacks consistent implementation. Disconnected information…
Charting Their Experiences and Mapping Their Futures in California Schools
California's 1.3 million English learner (EL) students have diverse needs, and many lack access to grade-level content instruction, with English language development falling short. Bilingual and dual immersion programs benefit ELs' academic,…