Lucrecia Santibañez

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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