John Rogers

Associate Dean for Research/Public Scholarship; Professor

John Rogers is a Professor at UCLA’s School of Education and Information Studies. He is the Associate Dean for Research/Public Scholarship, Director of UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access and Faculty Director of Principal Leadership Institute (PLI). Rogers studies the relationship among democracy, education, and different forms of inequality and has written widely on democratic participation and community organizing as strategies for advancing educational equity and civic renewal. Since 2016, his research has examined how political division and racial hostility affect student well-being and learning in U.S. public schools, as well as the role of democratic school leaders in forging a multiracial democracy. John Rogers is the recipient of the American Educational Research Association’s Presidential Citation. He received his Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University and his B.A. in Public Policy and African American Studies from Princeton University.

Departments

Department of Education

Programs

Academic Advising Specializations

Expertise

Research Centers

Titles and Positions

Professor of Education, UCLA
Associate Dean, Research/Public Scholarship, UCLA Ed&IS
Director, UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access
Faculty Director, Principal Leadership Institute (PLI)

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

Equality in Education Award, The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. 2001.
Mover and Shaker Award, The Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research. 2004.
Presidential Citation, American Educational Research Association, 2016.
UCLA Ed&IS Greenfield Award, research to improve elementary and secondary learning, 2021.

Education

Ph.D. in Educational Administration and Policy Analysis, Stanford University
B.A. in Public Policy and African American Studies, Princeton University.

Select Publications

Kwako, A., Rogers, J., Earl, J., Kahne, J. (2023). “Principals’ responses to gun violence protests: Deter, manage, or educate for democracy?” Teachers College Record. 125:2:131-77.
Rogers, J. & Kahne, J. with Ishimoto, M., Kwako, A., Stern, S.C., Bingener, C., Raphael, L., Alkam, S., & Conde, Y. (2022). Educating for a Diverse Democracy: The Chilling Role of Political Conflict in Blue, Purple, and Red Communities. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access.
Pollock, M., Rogers J., Kwako A., Matschiner, A., Kendall, R., Bingener, C., Reece, E., Kennedy, B., & Howard, J. (2022). The Conflict Campaign: Exploring Local Experiences of the Campaign to Ban “Critical Race Theory” in Public K-12 Education in the U.S., 2020-2021. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access.
Rogers, J. (2022). “Educating for democracy in contentious times.” In Marcelo Suarez Orozco & Carola Suarez Orozco, eds. Education: Our Global Compact. Columbia University Press.

Kahne, J., Rogers, J., & Kwako, A. (2021). “Do Politics in Our Democracy Prevent Schooling for Our Democracy? Civic Education in Highly Partisan Times.” Democracy and Education. 29(2).
Rogers, J., Ishimoto, M., Kwako, A., Berryman, A., Diera, C. (2019). School and Society in the Age of Trump. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access.
Rogers, J., & Westheimer, J. (2017). “Teaching About Economic Inequality in a Diverse Democracy: Politics, Ideology, and Difference.” PS: Political Science & Politics. 50(4), 1049-1055.
Orr, M. and Rogers, J. eds. (2010). Public Engagement for Public Education: Joining Forces to Revitalize Democracy and Equalize Schools. Stanford University Press.
Oakes, J. and Rogers, J. (2006). Learning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice. New York: Teachers College Press.
Rogers, J. and Oakes, J. (2005). “John Dewey Speaks to Brown: Research, Democratic Social Movement Strategies, and the Struggle for Education on Equal Terms,” Teachers College Record. 107:9:2178-2203.