Six faculty members of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies were included on this year's list of "RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings" published by Education Week. Those recognized are Marcelo Suárez-Orozco (dean of UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies), Patricia Gándara (professor of education and co-director of the UCLA Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles), Eva Baker (distinguished research professor and co-director of the UCLA Center for Research on Evaluation Standards and Student Testing (CRESST)), Gary Orfield (professor of education and co-director of the UCLA Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles), Mike Rose (research professor in the UCLA Education Social Research Methodology Division (SRM)) and Robert Teranishi (professor of education and co-director of the Institute for Immigration, Globalization and Education at UCLA).
Those selected for the RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence rankings are contributing most substantially to public debates about education, with a general gauge of the public influence of education scholars throughout the nation. The rubric reflects both a scholar’s body of work and their impact on the public discourse on education in 2013.
The list includes rankings by topic of expertise, and several of those recognized garnered additional attention among those in their field. Gandara was ranked ninth in the field of government and politics; Suárez-Orozco and Rose were ranked fourth and sixth, respectively, in sociology.
This post was adapted from Ampersand, the magazine for the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
