education

John Hawkins, emeritus professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, has published 'Research, Development and Innovation in Asia Pacific Higher Education.'

In California, where bilingual instruction is largely prohibited, secondary students who don’t speak English quickly fall behind. But a project to create a bilingual online curriculum is being led by UCLA professor Patricia Gándara.

Carlos Alberto Torres, UCLA education professor, has been appointed by UNESCO as the inaugural chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education.

The chemistry professor engages students in part by showing how the subject is relevant to everyday life, medicine and even pop culture.

UCLA education professor Linda Sax undertook a study to better understand who women’s college students are today and to identify how they’ve changed over time.

“The idea of the summit is that the youth take the lead and the adults listen,” said UCLA’s Darnell Hunt.

Tyrone Howard, a professor of education at UCLA, has a new grant-funded project to tell the story of young black and Latino men who, despite troubling statistics surrounding their identities, are thriving academically.

The research director at UCLA’s Center X writes about how teacher evaluations that include hours of observation and student feedback, among other criteria, foster trust between educators and those grading them.

Education professor Mike Rose writes in the Washington Post that character education is no substitute for improving poor students’ lives by addressing inequality.

For 15 years the UCLA education research center has conducted workshops to help thousands of Los Angeles high school students prepare for their Advanced Placement exams.

UCLA professor Linda Sax is leading a multi-institutional study that could help determine ways to increase the low numbers of women, in particular women of color, in college computer science programs.

Ten Alabama school districts adopted the guidelines two years ago, followed by 29 this school year. An additional 20 plan to get on board in 2015–16.

Dean Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco co-wrote a New York Times op-ed arguing that if the justice system recognized the humanity of undocumented immigrants it would benefit all of society.

Graduate student delegates will go to Sacramento for informal chats with state legislators in order to win their support.

UCLA’s Life Sciences has been awarded a four-year $2.4 million federal grant from the National Science Foundation to enhance and transform undergraduate education.

The report by UCLA and USC researchers informs an amicus brief supporting President Obama’s executive order shielding undocumented immigrants from deportation.

Professors Patricia Gándara, Sandra Graham and Noreen Webb, all on faculty in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, have been elected to the National Academy of Education.

The award will support the Teaching Schools Initiative, which has been based at the UCLA Community School and will be expanding to other sites.

Biochemistry student Jeffrey Vinokur is the Dancing Scientist, whose zany science experiments have been featured on national TV shows, on YouTube and in school auditoriums.

UCLA professor of education Robert Teranishi has been nominated by President Obama to the National Board for Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education.

Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala and Burkle Global Impact Initiative Director Brian Gott attended an event at the White House Tuesday at the invitation of President and Mrs. Obama for the announcement of a new initiative under the “Let Girls Learn” campaign.

UCLA neurosurgeon Dr. Isaac Yang will receive the prestigious National Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence from the American Medical Student Association.

A report by the UCLA Civil Rights Project is the first to analyze national school suspension rates by race and district.

Girls of color are disproportionately impacted by school discipline policies and excluded from current efforts to address the school-to-prison pipeline, according to a new report co-authored by two UCLA law professors.

The Department of Education’s college rating system could hurt universities that enroll large numbers of students who plan to graduate from other institutions.