Dr. Jacob Jackson is a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) Higher Education Center. His research includes work on college costs, college readiness, access to higher education, and college completion. Before joining PPIC, he was a postdoctoral scholar in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis.  Dr. Jackson is also a former middle school and high school mathematics teacher. He holds a PhD in education from the University of California, Davis, and a master’s degree in education from the University of Missouri.