Tolani Britton – Rappaport

Organization

Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston

Program

Rappaport Public Policy Fellow

Year

2014

Website

https://bse.berkeley.edu/tolani-britton

As a Rappaport Fellow, I worked with a state department of education for the first time. I learned a tremendous amount about both the complexity of the data collection process and the importance of answering questions of import to states and districts, as the foundation for partnership.

Rappaport Public Policy Fellows spend 10 weeks each summer serving within the highest levels of state and municipal governments in the Greater Boston Area. The program includes students from graduate and professional programs at local universities.

Graduate School
Harvard Graduate School of Education

Undergraduate School
Tufts University

Mentor
Joan Wallace Benjamin, The Home for Little Wanderers and Rappaport Institute Advisory board Member

Agency
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Supervisor
Carrie Conaway, Associate Commissioner, Office of Planning and Research

Description of Fellowship
Tolani explored whether the expressed preferences for college enrollment in eighth grade change by tenth grade, after a student has taken high school courses and how well the preferences revealed in eighth and tenth grades.