Professors Patricia Gándara, Sandra Graham and Noreen Webb, all on faculty at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSEIS), have been elected to the National Academy of Education (NAEd). They will be honored, along with 13 others elected nationwide, during the academy's 2015 annual meeting taking place in Washington D.C. in November.
“This is a historic day," said Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, dean of GSEIS. “Not one, not two, but three members of the faculty have been elected to the world’s most honorific education society."
Gándara serves as co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA. She has written or edited seven books and more than 100 articles and reports on educational equity for racial and linguistic minority students, school reform, access to higher education, the education of Latino students and language policy.
Graham chairs UCLA’s Council of Academic Personnel and is the Presidential Chair in Education and Diversity at GSEIS. She has spent her career studying the effects of inequity in schools on the emotional, psychological and academic achievement of students of color.
Webb serves as vice chair of UCLA Education. Her research interests include classroom processes related to learning outcomes, small-group problem solving, achievement testing in mathematics and science, aptitude-treatment interaction research and generalizability theory.
Read the complete story in the GSEIS news magazine, Ampersand.
