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In the past summer, over ninety Goldman School students interned in government, nonprofit and private agencies throughout the US and the world. John Parker (second from left) poses with members of the Year Up Bay Area Veterans Initiative team. Johnathon Parker was part of a small team piloting an initiative to recruit young adult veterans into the Year Up program.  Year Up is a non-profit organization that provides low-income young adults who are disconnected from stable career pathways with…

UC Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) was established in 1957 as an Organized Research Unit (ORU), and the first research institute in the world devoted to the study of systems, institutions, and processes of higher education. CSHE is now part of the campus’ Goldman School of Public Policy, in part reflecting the Center’s long history of interdisciplinary and policy relevant research. Previously, CSHE reported directly to the UC Berkeley Executive Vice Chancellor and…

​For the 9th time since August 14th, Colin Kaepernick knelt in protest during an NFL pre-game national anthem. Unlike his first protest in early August, this time he was joined by teammates Eli Harold and Eric Reid, and unlike his first protest, this time it didn’t make any headlines. Colin Kaepernick was featured on the cover of the October 3rd issue of Time Magazine as a result of the conversation he has sparked, centered on racial…

This past summer, over ninety Goldman School students interned in government, nonprofit and private agencies throughout the US and the world.  Sara Litke spent her summer completing a USAID Research and Innovation Fellowship (a.k.a. GDF fellowship) in rural Kenya, where she conducted an impact evaluation and developed surveys for a small agricultural nonprofit organization called Development in Gardening (DIG).   DIG focuses on nutrition-sensitive agriculture in developing countries.  Their mission is to improve the economic well-being,…

In the past summer, over ninety Goldman School students interned in government, nonprofit and private agencies throughout the US and the world. Ryan Sapinoso completed an Education Pioneers Summer Fellowship with Oakland Unified School District’s Continuous School Improvement Department. During the 2015-2016 school year, OUSD adopted a new framework for measuring school performance, and implemented a limited release of data to school leaders. Annual school performance data was additionally scheduled for a full public release in fall 2016 to…

Today the Center on Civility & Democratic Engagement at UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy joined the National Institute for Civil Discourse in calling on the presidential debate moderators to adopt a set of Debate Standards designed to ensure that the 2016 Presidential Debates are fair, informative, and civil. More than 60 organizations signed on to the debate standards, which include guidelines for moderators, the audience, and the candidates themselves. This election is the most uncivil in recent memory, and…

Improving Public Policy Through Data and Behavioral Science RECRUITMENT PERIOD Open August 18th, 2016 through October 17th, 2016 DESCRIPTION The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a tenure-track appointment to the faculty at the Assistant Professor rank, with an expected start date of July 1, 2017. The Goldman School of Public Policy seeks applications from researchers who use data and behavioral science with an intent to solve pressing social problems, improve public policy,…

Monica Ramos Although it’s been a long time, I vividly recall my reaction when I learned that I had been admitted to Amherst College: The admissions office must have made a terrible mistake. I had graduated from a Long Island high school where most students didn’t go to college, so I was convinced that at Amherst I would be overmatched by my better-educated, more sophisticated classmates and sliced to ribbons by my brilliant professors. To my…

Lilli Carré Half a dozen police cars ring the entrance to the Morris Educational Campus in the Bronx. To enter this venerable Gothic-style building, I have to make my way through a phalanx of policemen and be scanned by a metal detector. But the show of force doesn’t signal that the high school students inside pose a threat. It is intended to protect the students, who fear getting mugged, or worse, in a high-crime neighborhood situated in…

Third grade teacher Lynn Haskins talks to students at a school in Shingletown, California, on May 25, 2016. Political and legal battles surrounding teacher tenure and seniority have been raging in California over the past couple of years. In 2014, in Vergara v. California, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled that a variety of teacher job protections worked together to violate students’ constitutional right to an equal education. This past spring, in a 3–0 decision, the California…