education

Leaders of California's three public higher education systems jointly addressed the UC Board of Regents on Jan. 22 and discussed their plans for strengthening implementation of the state's Master Plan for Higher Education.

Jane Margolis is a senior researcher at UCLA and the author of “Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing.” Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, a professor and dean of education at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and...

University of California President Janet Napolitano and several UC chancellors joined President Obama and education leaders from around the country at a higher education summit aimed at making college more accessible to low-income students.

UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies joined the Los Angeles Unified School District and nonprofit Code.org to collectively launch the Los Angeles segment of National Computer Science Education Week at the UCLA Community School Dec. 10.

As experts on immigration’s impact on children and youth, Professor Carola and Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, both of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, presented two talks at the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences at the Casina Pio IV in Vatican City.

Students at predominantly Latino Roosevelt High School are reaching beyond their own neighborhood and culture to study the language, music and traditional theater of China through the Chinese Alive! program.   A...

Young Latinas who have Latino teachers and counselors as role models and participate in extracurricular activities in high school have a much better chance of educational success.

More than 4,000 people swarmed the Court of Sciences and Kinsey Pavilion to participate in a scientific open house where children (and adults) could learn by observing and participating in dozens of live demos and experiments.

A two-year, labor-intensive project by UCLA Lab School students, parents and volunteers to clean up and restore Stone Canyon Creek is making headway.

Ackerman Grand Ballroom was transformed into a broadcast studio today when UCLA and Univision Communications co-hosted a Spanish-language town hall and an English-language webcast focused on the urgency of closing the Latino education gap. “Today is ...

As part of an effort to support the growth of Chinese education in U.S. schools, 115 teachers from China have been studying at UCLA to learn how to be effective Mandarin language teachers for American students.

This op-ed by UCLA Chancellor Gene Block was published March 14 in the Washington Post.