education

For the 2017-18 academic year, employees can apply for their children to attend eight schools.

The Good Food for Local Schools website features resources from UC and other sources that reflect innovative thinking and practices related to healthy and sustainable pre-K-12 school food options.

UCLA is partnering with local elementary schools to promote mind-body techniques for a calmer classroom environment.

Geffen Academy at UCLA’s first students will be admitted for the 2017-18 academic year, in grades 6, 7 and 9, and up to half the students will be the children of UCLA staff and faculty.

The number of Latino physicians in the U.S. has not kept up with the dramatic increase in the Latino population.

Local high school students learn about the life of a UCLA scientist and practical uses for nanotechnology.

This month, in a historic agreement crafted in part by the U.S. ambassador to Argentina and UCLA leaders, 94 educators from Argentina participated in a two-week Fulbright program at UCLA.

Tyrone Howard's Black Male Institute at UCLA focuses on finding ways to propel black male youth to college and prepare them for success in academia and professional life.

With the start today of a weeklong celebration of International Education Week at UCLA, Chancellor Gene Block offers his views on why global perspectives and cultural fluency are vital for students to be successful in the 21st century.

The codirector of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA notes that students who participate in a good bilingual program perform better in English.

Mother of four Debra Duardo earned three UCLA degrees and now heads the Los Angeles County Office of Education.

Behind the move to bring mindfulness into the school day is the UCLA Center for Child Anxiety Resilience Education and Support (CARES), which sponsors this and other programs that support student resilience.

Education professor Carola Suárez-Orozco pushes for revamping how teachers and administrators are trained to teach English language learners in K-12 schools.

Oakes is UCLA Presidential Professor Emerita in Educational Equity and founding director of Center X and the Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access.

The University of California, with assistance from educators at UCLA's Center X, is sponsoring a new summer program that makes learning math and science fun for 100 youngsters, thanks to a partnership with Bethany Baptist Church in the Crenshaw area.

'Out of the Shallow End' by Civil Rights Project coordinator Laurie Russman was recently screened at the Director's Guild of America.

The new director of the Higher Educational Research Institute at UCLA underscores the importance of community colleges for historically marginalized groups of students.

The UCLA education professor reflects on some of the sweeping changes the survey has observed in students and society.

While University of California campuses have never asked about an applicant's criminal history as part of the application process, the practice is used by other universities.

Since 1999, UCLA can count 19 winners of the annual Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, which support exemplary students as they pursue graduate school.

The concept of separating students by sex as a tool for education reform has fallen into a minefield of limited and dubious data as to its effectiveness.

UCLA and Horace Mann Middle School recently announced the Mann-UCLA Summer Institute, a suite of summer programs at the South Los Angeles middle school to boost educational success and opportunities.

Founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, Turkle has spent 30 years researching the psychology of people’s relationships with technology. RSVP for her lecture by April 15.

UCLA staff is invited to attend an information session about the Geffen Academy at UCLA Initiative on Tuesday from noon to 1 p.m. in Charles E. Young Research Library Room 11360.

The honor recognizes the professor of education and Asian American studies for notable and sustained research achievements.