UCLA Ed&IS Magazine Archive - UCLA School of Education & Information Studies

The Benefits of Arts Education

Winter 2024 Issue

Inside this issue: We take a look at Georgia Lazo and Karen Hunter Quartz as they weigh in on “The Benefits of Arts Education”, A Model of Rigorous Teacher Preparation: The UCLA Joint Music Education Program, The Art of Seeing Differently: Q&A with Maryanne Wolf, Reimagining Teaching/Learning Relations Alongside Improvisational and Ensemble Performers, and Access to High Quality Arts Education: A look at Prop. 28’s potential to offer sequential high-quality arts education to K–12 students in California.

Tyrone C. Howard: The Power of Research and the Attacks on Public Education

Spring 2023 Issue

Inside this issue: We look at Anti-Blackness at School: Creating Affirming Educational Spaces for African American Students, Q&A with Tyrone C. Howard: AERA President on the Power of Research and the Attacks on Public Education, UCLA Ed&IS Student and Alumni Research Highlights from AERA 2023, OUR CHILDREN CAN’T WAIT: The Urgency of Reinventing Education Policy in America a Q&A and Excerpt from the Book Edited by Joseph P. Bishop, The Potential of California’s Community College Baccalaureate for Closing Racial Equity Gaps, and UCLA IS Media Preservation Lab Partners With LA Communities to Digitally Preserve Local Media Collections.

Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present

Fall 2022 Issue

Inside this issue: We look at Johanna Druckers “Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present”, Literacies of Love: Trauma, Healing, and Pedagogical Shifts in an English Classroom, The Walls Around Opportunity: The Failure of Colorblind Policy for Higher Education, and Teaching and Learning at 31 Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Mike Rose: Reflections on the Public School and the Social Fabric

Spring 2022 Issue

Inside this issue: We look at the work of Mike Rose “Reflections on the Public School and the Social Fabric” and a Q&A with the author of the 10th anniversary of his seminal work “The Mind at Work.”, “Preparing Social Justice Educators,” an excerpt from the new book by Annamarie Francois and Karen Hunter Quartz, and Training a Nation’s Librarians: Examining Libraries as Outposts for Societal Advancement and Justice in Kosovo

What’s Next? How digital Media Shapes our Society

Summer 2021 Issue

Inside this issue: We look at What’s Next? How Digital Media Shapes Our Society, Unseen and Unsupported Students in Charter Schools, One Year Ago, One Year Later: Teachers Talk About Challenges, Progress and Commitment Amid the Pandemic, Voices from the Field: The Impact of COVID-19 on Early Career Scholars and Doctoral Students, The Strategies of Resistance, Community Archives: Assimilation, Integration, or Resistance?, and The Effects of Absenteeism on Academic and Social-Emotional Outcomes: Lessons for COVID-19.

State of Crisis: Dismantling Students Homelessness in California

Fall 2020 Issue

Inside this issue: We look at new research from the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools, “State of Crisis: Dismantling Student Homelessness in California” highlighting the critical issue of student homelessness, we share excerpts two of faculty member’s publications, Eddie R. Cole’s book “The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom” and Ramesh Srinivasan’s book “Beyond the Valley: How Innovators around the World are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow”. You can also read the report “Lost Opportunities: How Disparate School Discipline Continues to Drive Differences in the Opportunity to Learn” from the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the UCA Civil Rights Project, and UCLA IDEA’s national survey of high school principals, “Learning Lessons U.S. Public High Schools and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spring 2020.”

UCLA ED&IS Addresses the Challenges of the COVID-19 Crisis

Spring 2020 Issue

Inside this issue: We look at the work of our faculty in response to the COVID-19 crisis. We highlight the work of Meghan Franke on Cognitively Guided Instruction. The work of teachers of UCLA Mann Community School on teaching climate change to students in low-income neighborhoods and research around the California College Promise Program are also highlighted. You can read a profile of Emerita Professor Virginia Walter and Q&A with Johanna Drucker about the Information fields and the pandemic. We also highlight the work of John Rogers and Data for Democracy, a UCLA Centennial Initiative.

Looking Back . . . 100 Years:

Fall 2019 Issue

Inside this issue: We look at the work of Professor Daniel Solarzano in “My Critical Race Journey to Racial Microaggressions and Microaffirmations—1969 to 2019.” We dig into research on preservation principles and studies of Native American featherwork and the findings of a recent UCLA Civil Rights Project study, “Harming our Common Future: America’s Segregated Schools 65 Years after Brown”. You can read an excerpt from the new book, “Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media” by Sarah T. Roberts. We also talk with Jeff Share and Douglas Kellner about critical media literacy and the urgent need for a greater awareness of both media’s benefits and threats to culture and society and explore how UCLA Community School is helping immigrant children dream and thrive in “A Path Forward: Finding Educational Success with Immigrant Students.”

Leading the Way: Education Professor John McNiel and UCLA Celebrate Their Centennials

Spring 2019 Issue

Inside this issue: The cover of this issue is graced by a photograph of UCLA Emeritus Professor John McNeil, who also turns 100 this fall. In this issue, we take a deep look at the forces that are driving migration at our border and across the globe, we showcase the research of assistant professor Shawn VanCour, with an excerpt from his book Making Radio: Early Radio Production and the Rise of Modern Sound Culture, and we dig into the work of IS assistant professor Miriam Posner in a Q&A examining the changing role of Museums in the Digital Age. Professor Teresa McCarty and Assistant Professor Ananda Marin explore diverse cultures and teaching practices for heritage language learners in their ongoing research, and we look at the groundbreaking research of Professor John Rogers, Director of the UCLA Institute for Democracy, Education and Access.

UCLA Information Studies: Pursing Fair, Just and Equitable Acess to Information

Fall 2018 Issue

Inside this issue: Take a look at the work of the UCLA Civil Rights Project; Professor Walter Allen, who received the Scholars of Color Distinguished Career Award and delivered the prestigious W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture at the AERA annual meeting, excerpted here; excerpts of Visiting Professor Maryanne Wolf’s new book, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in the Digital World.

Earl Edwards: Improving Pathways for Homeless Children and Youth

Spring 2018 Issue

Inside this issue: Dive into the story and advice on why educators need better training to help homeless students from a formerly homeless youth and UCLA Ph.D. candidate, Earl Edwards; Examining the Complexities of Data-Sharing with Christine Borgman; Research Exploring Children’s Attitudes on Poverty and Wealth; An interview with Professor Johanna Drucker; Why Aren’t More Women Majoring in Computer Science?; Why Ethnic Diversity in Schools Benefits Everyone; and Power-Conscious Approaches to Campus Sexual Violence.

The Teachers LA Needs: How UCLA is Helping to Shape the Future

Fall 2017 Issue

Inside this issue: From our Education faculty, a look at the state of equal access to computer science education in our schools, racialized experiences of Asian American and Pacific Islanders at UCLA, and a look back at the 135th anniversary of the UCLA Lab School. From our Information Studies faculty, we have excerpts from a new book on how technology is shaping indigenous and developing world communities and activist groups across the globe, and we look at commercial content moderation online and the impact it has on the unspoken thousands of workers who police the Internet.

Students We Share: Binational Education Between the U.S. and Mexico

Fall 2016 Issue

Inside this Issue: From our Education faculty, a look at Binational Education between the US and Mexico, research on high-achieving black male students, and a discussion of the state of LAUSD. From our Information Studies faculty, we look at the data needs and consequences of audiovisual evidence management, and a look back at the 50 years of The American Freshman survey, a widely used data point on college freshmen around the country.