At UCLA Lab School, classrooms double as research laboratories — places where teachers, students, and university researchers collaborate to reimagine how children learn. Through UCLA CONNECT, these partnerships have sparked discoveries that reach far beyond one campus, influencing how educators nationwide think about teaching, learning, and equity.
The UCLA Community Archives Lab explores the ways that independent, identity-based memory organizations document, shape, and provide access to the histories of minoritized communities.
A look at how the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA converts complex concepts into actionable plans of educational practice.
UCLA’s signature program for rare book professionals turns 20, providing cross-cultural exchange and comparative learning.
The UCLA Computer Science Equity Project is working to increase female participation in computer science among K-12 students. With a focus on equity, the program is engaged in significant research that informs and shapes educational practice and public policy to increase access to high-quality K-12 computer science education.
The Center for the Transformation of Schools is dedicated to partnering with the education ecosystem to bring about systems change through Humanizing Research, Validating Practices, and Transformative Policies with key stakeholders to support equitable educational outcomes for students.
UC|CSU Collaborative for Neuroscience, Diversity, and Learning—a statewide partnership–is bringing the science of how students learn directly into the hands of educators and communities. By connecting cutting-edge research with everyday practice, the Collaborative is helping ensure that every child, in every corner of the state, has the chance to thrive.
Profile of Jeannie Oakes, who was a transformative public scholar and leaves behind a legacy of significant research and accomplishment. Oakes was pivotal to the development of UCLA Center X, UCLA IDEA and UC/ACCORD. Her public scholarship shone a light on educational inequity in our school systems.
A look at Oakes’ personal impact on her friends, colleagues, and the educational research community.
The Pritzker Center partners with experts across campus, practitioners and agencies, and local and state policymakers in support of on-the-ground change for the Los Angeles County foster care system.
Q&A with author Tonia Sutherland and Book Excerpt
Sutherland, an internationally recognized expert on Black archival practices, employs a lens of critical archival, digital, and cultural studies in her examination of the technology and societal mores around the ways that Black Americans are portrayed posthumously online.
Q&A with Lori Patton Davis and Book Excerpt
Lori Patton Davis has channeled her expertise as a higher education and student affairs professional and a researcher into her new book, “Embracing Queer Students’ Diverse Identities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Primer for Presidents, Administrators and Faculty,” that provides a vivid picture of what it is to be a Black LGBTQ+ college student.
Sarah Bang, Director, P-12 Public School Partnerships at UCLA School of Education and Information Studies reflects on K-12 educational needs after the […]
The SMASH Project is an interdisciplinary partnership between the UCLA Departments of Education and Information Studies in collaboration with the Organization for Social Media Safety as part of UCLA’s Initiative to Study Hate.
The Joint Music Education Program is a partnership between the Teacher Education Program at UCLA Center X, and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
Ananda Marin, a UCLA associate professor of education and the daughter of a jazz musician, studies the ways that artists improvise and how collaboration and community can transform education.
Maryanne Wolf, director of the UCLA Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice, shares how the arts reveal and develop the hidden strengths of students with dyslexia and other diverse learners.
Q&A with Lindsay Lindberg, UCLA doctoral student researcher and president-elect of the California Dance Education Association, discusses the future of K-12 arts education for the teacher workforce, students, and school culture.
Thuy Vo Dang, assistant professor of information studies, discusses how memory work and archives will enhance K–12 learning, with ways to preserve and empower marginalized communities with teaching about identity, based on primary sources.
UCLA Lab School principal Georgia Lazo, UCLA Community Schooling director Karen Hunter Quartz, educators, leaders, and researchers weigh in on the intrinsic value of the arts in K–12 learning.
The Allan Murray Cartter Professor of Higher Education will be inducted into the National Academy of Education this month.
