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UCLA Ed&IS News
The latest stories, announcements, and research from
the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies.
Mauro Bautista: Empowering Students and Their Families
UCLA Ed&IS alumnus, who received his teacher and principal training at UCLA Ed&IS, serves as Principal for Felicitas & Gonzalo Mendez High School — a community school located in East Los Angeles.
Eddie R. Cole Named Recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Book Award by the Association for the Study of Higher Education
Award honors Cole’s book, “The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom.”
Johanna Drucker Wins AIGA Steven Heller Award for Cultural Commentary
UCLA’s inaugural Breslauer Professor of Bibliography lauded for her work in the look of language and how it adds to its meaning.
UCLA internet studies and race scholar Safiya Noble awarded MacArthur Fellowship
Noble, who joins 13 other UCLA ‘genius grant’ recipients, is set to launch a nonprofit that encourages women leaders.
The Strategies of Resistance
An excerpt from Daniel G. Solórzano and Lindsay Pérez Huber’s book Racial Microaggressions: Using Critical Race Theory to Respond to Everyday Racism that analyzes how microaffirmations within Communities of Color reclaim the dignity and humanity that everyday racism takes away.
Community Archives: Assimilation, Integration, or Resistance?
An excerpt from Information Studies Professor Michelle Caswell’s new book Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work that looks at how the accidental discovery of a home movie of an interracial South Asian American family provided a window into the society in which it was created.
Making the Case for Social Justice Educators in America’s Schools
New book, “Preparing and Sustaining Social Justice Educators,” details UCLA Center X efforts to transform teacher preparation, educator support, and schools through focus on social justice
Lindsay Pérez Huber: New Book Examines Harmful Effects of Racist Rhetoric in Education
UCLA alumna is an associate professor in the Social and Cultural Analysis of Education program at CSU Long Beach.
UCLA Computer Science Model Expanding in Los Angeles Unified Schools
$1M National Science Foundation grant will expand UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools’ effort to close learning gaps and increase opportunities in STEM for low-income students of color at two LAUSD schools in South Los Angeles.
Norma Feshbach: 1926 – 2021
Scholar of empathy in children founded UCLA program that became the Human Development and Psychology division of SEIS.
Annamarie Francois Featured on UC Website for Teacher Education Research and Improvement Network
Executive director of UCLA Center X shares her experiences as a teacher educator and her hopes for the future of preparing teachers.
Sylvia Hurtado to Deliver 2021 AERA Distinguished Lecture
Rescheduled event highlights work of scholar of sociology of education.
New Article by UCLA Researcher Earl J. Edwards Examines Impact of Anti-Black Racism on Black Homelessness
“Who Are the Homeless? Centering Anti-Black Racism and the Consequences of Colorblind Homeless Policies”
Rodney W. Skager: 1932– 2021
Scholar of educational psychology served as former program director of the Center of the Study of Evaluation, led California study of youth substance use.
A silent revolution? Why this? Why now?
Commentary: Knowledge That Matters
One Year Ago, One Year Later: Teachers Talk About Challenges, Progress and Commitment Amid the Pandemic
How four LA teachers came up with strategies to keep their students engaged and supported while their own lives were upended.
Voices from the Field: The Impact of COVID-19 on Early Career Scholars and Doctoral Students
A new study examines how the pandemic affected scholarly research and early education careers of those who were suddenly at a precipice of funding shortages or program cuts.
Lessa Pelayo-Lozada: Chosen as 2021-22 ALA President-Elect
Adult services manager of the Palos Verdes Library District will be the first UCLA alumna and first Pacific Islander to assume leadership of the American Library Association.
What’s Next? How Digital Media Shapes Our Society
A summary of Professor Leah A. Lievrouw’s most recent book, which explores the rapidly changing role communication plays at the center of human experience and endeavor.
Unseen and Unsupported Students in Charter Schools
A study finds that LA County’s charter schools are underreporting and providing less than adequate resources to assist its student homeless population.
Two Friends Recall UCLA Professor Mike Rose on KCRW Greater LA
Tina Christie UCLA Wasserman Dean of the School of Education Information Studies, and Na’ilah Suad Nasir, the President of The Spencer Foundation share their heartfelt remembrances of Professor Mike Rose, who passed away in mid-August.
Teacher Spotlight: Sophie Chen
Flipped Classroom: Supporting Students through Hybrid Learning
In memoriam, Mike Rose, 77, UCLA professor who chronicled the power of learning
Rose pushed colleagues to write about and share their ideas beyond academia