Meet Janelle Scott
Meet Janelle Scott
 
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Janelle Scott is a Chancellor’s Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Graduate School of Education, Goldman School of Public Policy, and African American Studies Department, where she is also affiliated with the Haas Center for a Fair and Inclusive Society. Her research investigates how market-based educational reforms affect democratic accountability and equity within our nation’s schools. 

Dr. Scott has explored this research program across several policy strands: (1) the racial politics of public education, (2) the politics of school choice, marketization, and privatization, (3) the politics of research evidence on market-oriented policies, and (4) the role of advocacy in shaping public education. She has published over 60 journal articles and book chapters. Her work has appeared in several outlets, including the Peabody Journal of Education, Educational Policy, Qualitative Inquiry, the American Educational Research Journal, and the Harvard Educational Review. She is the editor of School Choice and Diversity: What the Evidence Says (2005, Teachers College Press).

Her scholarship has been recognized through several awards and foundation support. She was awarded a Spencer Dissertation Year Fellowship and a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. In 2014, she received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Educational Research Association’s Committee on Scholars of Color. In 2017, she received a Distinguished Faculty Mentorship Award from the Graduate Assembly at the University of California, Berkeley. She has served on the editorial boards of the American Educational Research Journal, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Educational Administration Quarterly, AERA Open, and Education Policy Analysis Archives.

Dr. Scott earned a Ph.D. in Education Policy from the University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Before earning her doctorate, she worked as an elementary teacher in Oakland, California.

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