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2020–2021
I participated in a group of educational experts for the preparation of the Education Chapter of the Spain 2050 report, led by the National Office of Foresight and Strategy of the Government of Spain. In the education chapter, we analyzed the state of education in Spain, identified key strengths and weaknesses and elaborated a comprehensive long-term strategy of educational policies and indicators to monitor progress. The report was presented by the Prime Minister of Spain and had a great media coverage and subsequent public and social debate.
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2020
In the months of the hardest confinement in the spring of 2020, I worked together with the COTEC Foundation and her Director of Education, Ainara Zubillaga, in a project to understand the consequences of school closures on children, we drawed possible scenarios of action by public administrations after schools would reopened. This report was the first to anticipate what would happen next and had a great influence on the policy response of the Ministry of Education and the regions as well as on the public debate.
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2018–2020
After the failure of the Educational Pact at the Congress of Deputies, together with the Atlantida Project and the COTEC Foundation we created REDE, the Network for Educational Dialogue, a ample network of educational organizations and associations that worked with hundreds of teachers, directors, inspectors , academics and specialists discuss and explore a hypothesis: if from the educational sector, an agreement between different visions (that had turned impossible from politics) could occur in Spain. So we created 6 work groups that will worked on agreed diagnostic documents and proposals. These discussions were the start of 6 monographs of the journal Cuadernos de Pedagogía and 6 books edited by the ANELE publishing house. In addition to leading the coordination of the group together with Florencio Luengo and Ainara Zubillaga I coordinated two working groups: the educational evaluation group (joint with Javi Cortés and education financing group: in these two groups, I coordinated and edit the monographs of Cuadernos de Pedagogía and the two books of ANELE.
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2017–2018
Between 2017 and 2018, as a collaborator with the Atlantida Project, I participated in the elaboration and dissemination of a proposal for a possible educational pact within the framework of the Subcommission for a Social and Political Pact for Education of the Spanish Congress of Deputies. We prepared extensive documentation, held meetings with political parties, organized events, and participated as speakers in various sessions of the Congress Subcommittee. The pact failed, but the learnings were large.
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2016–2018
Together with Octavio Medina, I led the Education Series of the Politikon Blog, where academics, policy-makers and educational specialists participated. The cycle had important coverage and attention from traditional media and political parties.
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2017–2019
In this project, I worked with Sara de la Rica, Fernando Monge and Ainhoa Vega-Bayo, by designing and leading an analysis of the situation of the Basque educational system, based on a large part of the micro-data administrative records of the Department of Education of the Basque Government. It was part of a collaboration agreement between the Department of Education of the Basque Government and the University of the Basque Country. On the one hand, we carried out an in-depth analysis of the state of the public spending in education, at the level of schools, analyzing the adequacy, the efficiency and the equity of the welfare. Furthermore, we prepared a detailed analysis to understand the evolution of the results of Primary and lower secondary students in the Diagnostic Assessments carried out by the Government between 2011 and 2017.
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2017
In this project, led by Atlantida Project and with the support of the COTEC Foundation, I analyzed the calibration of the Capacitat Professional Docent (CPD) instrument, a self-assessment tool of the functioning of schools evaluated by teachers. Together with Eva Flavia Martinez and Javier Cortés, we analyzed the results, and studied the validity, reliability and predictive capacity of the instrument, based on the responses of 2,000 teachers from 100 public schools in the Autonomous Community of Extremadura.
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2015–2018
During this period, I worked to study the impact of technological change and the polarization and evolution of employment in the recent decades in developed countries. From here came part of my doctoral dissertation, a study on the future of the work in the EU by the World Bank and a report by FEDEA Foundation.
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2016
Working with the consulting firm KSNET, we prepared a report on the status of child inequality in Spain for the NGO Save the Children. We analyze 5 dimensions of child inequality (education, health, social protection, employment and housing), from a quantitative perspective and also from a public policy perspective. The report served as framework of various strategies (among others, social protection and school segregation) of Save the Children's impact on children's issues in the following years.