Patricia Gandara

Patricia Gándara

Moore Hall 3329
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521

P: (310) 267-4875

W: https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/

Patricia Gándara

Professor Emerita

Patricia Gándara has been a bilingual school psychologist, a Social Scientist with the RAND Corporation, she has directed education research in the California Legislature, and since 1990 she has been a Professor of Education in the University of California system.  She has also served as Commissioner for Post-secondary Education for the State of California.  For nine years she was Associate Director of the Linguistic Minority Research Institute and is currently Co-Director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA.

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Titles and Positions

  • Research Professor of Education
  • Co-Director The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

Fellow, Sudikoff Family Institute for Education & New Media – 2009-10

Education

  • Ph.D., Educational Psychology, UCLA, 1979
  • M.S., Counseling/School Psychology, California State University, Los Angeles, 1972
  • B.A., Sociology/English Literature, UCLA, 1969
  • Certificate in Spanish Language and Literature, Universidad Menéndez-Pelayo, Spain 1974

Select Publications

  • Gándara, P. (2012) From González to Flores:  A return to the Mexican room? In Santa Ana, O. & Bustamante, C. (eds). Arizona Firestorm.  Lanham, MD: Roman & Littlefield Publishers.
  • Maxwell-Jolly, J. & Gándara, P. (2012) Teaching all our students well. Teachers and teaching to close the academic achievement gap.  In Timar, T. & Maxwell-Jolly, J. (eds). Connecting the Dots and Closing the Gap: Multiple Perspectives for Closing the Academic Achievement Gap.  Cambridge:  Harvard Education Press.
  • Gándara, P. & Orfield, G. (2012) Historical, legal, and political contexts of Arizona’s instructional policies for English learners, Language Policy, 11, 1
  • Martinez-Wenzl, M., Pérez, K., & Gándara, P. (2012) Is Arizona’s approach to educating its English learners superior to other forms of instruction? In Horne v. Flores and the Future of Language Policy: Special Issue. Teachers College Record, 114, 9
  • Gándara, P., & Orfield, G. (2012) Segregating Arizona’s English learners: A return to the “Mexican Room”? in Horne v. Flores and the Future of Language Policy: Special Issue. Teachers College Record, 114, 9