Belen Chavez
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Belen Chavez
Senior Research Associate,
Policy Analysis for California Education, Stanford University
Belen Chavez is a senior research associate at Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE). In that role, she focuses both on improving data quality and on helping education policy leaders and researchers by providing them with actionable data. She is an applied data analyst and has previous data experience in e-commerce, utilities, and litigation consulting. Before joining PACE, she managed the Stanford Education Data Archive at the Center for Education Policy Analysis at Stanford University. She received her bachelor’s degree in business economics from the University of California, Irvine, and her master’s degree in economics from Duke University.
updated 2021
Publications by Belen Chavez
Seven Key Facts
Absenteeism soared in California and nationally in the wake of the pandemic, and addressing this extraordinary increase is crucial to helping students catch up academically. Using data available from the California Department of Education and…
Seven Key Facts
Chronic absenteeism has soared in California and nationally in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and addressing this extraordinary increase is crucial to helping students catch up academically. Using data available from the California Department of…
In October 2023, the California Department of Education released test scores for all students in Grades 3–8 and 11 for the 2022–23 school year. These results represent an opportunity to analyze whether and to what extent student learning has…