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Meet our new faculty: Tolani Britton, education

Tolani Britton, new to the Graduate School of Education at Berkeley, explores the impact of policies on students’ transition from secondary school to higher education

Tolani Britton

Tolani BrittonName: Tolani Britton
Discipline: Education
Degrees: B.A. and M.A. in economics, Tufts, 2001 and 2002; M.A. in French Cultural Studies, Columbia, 2004; Ed.D., Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2018
Research interests: I use quasi-experimental methods to explore the impact of policies on students’ transition from secondary school to higher education, as well as access and retention in higher education.
Other interests: Travel and reading; In first grade, I said that I would be a lifetime student, and since then I have spent over 30 years in school — though not always as a student.

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