Jeannie Oakes (1943 – 2024)
Jeannie Oakes (1943 – 2024)
Presidential Professor Emerita in Educational Equity
Read More about Jeannie Oakes’ life and contributions here.
Read More about Jeannie Oakes’ appointment by President Obama to National Board for Education Sciences in UCLA Newsroom.
Departments
Research Centers
Titles
- Presidential Professor Emerita in Educational Equity
- Founder, Center X
- Founder, UCLA Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA)
- Founder and past Director the University of California All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity (UC ACCORD).
- Director of Education and Scholarship at the Ford Foundation
- 100th President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in 2016.
Education
- Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
- M.A., California State University
- B.A., San Diego State University
Select Publications
- “Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning,” co-authored with Linda Darling-Hammond (2019)
- “Learning Time: In Pursuit of Educational Equity,” co-authored with Jorge Ruiz de Velasco and Marisa Saunders, associate director for research, UCLA Center for Community Schooling (2017);
- “Beyond Tracking: Multiple Pathways to College, Career, and Civic Participation,” co-edited with Saunders (2008).
- “Learning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice” (2006) with UCLA Professor of Education John Rogers.