Michal Kurlaender is Assistant Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis. She received an Ed.D. in Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2005. Her research interests include access to post-secondary schooling for underrepresented populations, K-12 school desegregation and integration, and bringing innovative quantitative methods to bear on issues of education policy. Dr. Kurlaender has published widely in academic journals, including the American Journal of Education, the International Journal of Educational Policy, Research and Practice, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. She has also received research grants from the Spencer Foundation and the American Educational Research Association, and is currently co-editing a Warren Institute volumne on the effect of California’s Proposition 209.