Janet Santos is a project manager on JFF’s efforts to develop and advocate for policies to increase academic achievement and high school completion rates. She coordinates JFF’s multiple state policy initiatives, analyzes current policies, and identifies potential policy levers supportive of P-16 (or P-20) structures to increase the high school and college completion rates of students from underrepresented groups.
Prior to joining JFF, Ms. Santos was an intern at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, where she provided research support. As a program associate at The Education Alliance at Brown University, she assisted in the development of research and training materials about effective instructional and curricular interventions for English language learners for district and state professional development. She also collaborated in conducting needs assessments of ELL programs at schools and districts that informed local reform initiatives. She is the co-author of Minority Teacher, Recruitment, Development and Retention and Approaches to Writing Instruction for Adolescent ELLs. Ms. Santos has also co-presented at various professional development trainings and conferences throughout the Northeast.
Ms. Santos holds an M.A. in urban education policy and a B.A. in history (twentieth-century Latin America) and Portuguese and Brazilian studies from Brown University. She has studied in Brazil and Argentina and speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Her areas of interest include international education, social inequalities and globalization.
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