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The chemistry professor engages students in part by showing how the subject is relevant to everyday life, medicine and even pop culture.

UCLA education professor Linda Sax undertook a study to better understand who women’s college students are today and to identify how they’ve changed over time.

“The idea of the summit is that the youth take the lead and the adults listen,” said UCLA’s Darnell Hunt.

Tyrone Howard, a professor of education at UCLA, has a new grant-funded project to tell the story of young black and Latino men who, despite troubling statistics surrounding their identities, are thriving academically.

The research director at UCLA’s Center X writes about how teacher evaluations that include hours of observation and student feedback, among other criteria, foster trust between educators and those grading them.

Education professor Mike Rose writes in the Washington Post that character education is no substitute for improving poor students’ lives by addressing inequality.

For 15 years the UCLA education research center has conducted workshops to help thousands of Los Angeles high school students prepare for their Advanced Placement exams.

UCLA professor Linda Sax is leading a multi-institutional study that could help determine ways to increase the low numbers of women, in particular women of color, in college computer science programs.

Ten Alabama school districts adopted the guidelines two years ago, followed by 29 this school year. An additional 20 plan to get on board in 2015–16.

Dean Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco co-wrote a New York Times op-ed arguing that if the justice system recognized the humanity of undocumented immigrants it would benefit all of society.

Graduate student delegates will go to Sacramento for informal chats with state legislators in order to win their support.

UCLA’s Life Sciences has been awarded a four-year $2.4 million federal grant from the National Science Foundation to enhance and transform undergraduate education.

Professors Patricia Gándara, Sandra Graham and Noreen Webb, all on faculty in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, have been elected to the National Academy of Education.

The award will support the Teaching Schools Initiative, which has been based at the UCLA Community School and will be expanding to other sites.

Biochemistry student Jeffrey Vinokur is the Dancing Scientist, whose zany science experiments have been featured on national TV shows, on YouTube and in school auditoriums.

UCLA professor of education Robert Teranishi has been nominated by President Obama to the National Board for Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education.

Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala and Burkle Global Impact Initiative Director Brian Gott attended an event at the White House Tuesday at the invitation of President and Mrs. Obama for the announcement of a new initiative under the “Let Girls Learn” campaign.

UCLA neurosurgeon Dr. Isaac Yang will receive the prestigious National Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence from the American Medical Student Association.

A report by the UCLA Civil Rights Project is the first to analyze national school suspension rates by race and district.

Girls of color are disproportionately impacted by school discipline policies and excluded from current efforts to address the school-to-prison pipeline, according to a new report co-authored by two UCLA law professors.

The research director at UCLA’s Center X writes that teacher training could learn from doctor training by adopting residency programs that combine university instruction and field-based learning.

The study showed that children’s readiness for kindergarten was influenced not only by whether they attend preschool, but also by their families’ behaviors, attitudes and values.

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block writes in a Los Angeles Times op-ed that President Obama’s proposal to make two years of community college free is a bold step to equalize opportunity for all.

The gift will provide scholarship support to students in UCLA Teacher Education Program and help recruit the best and brightest students to pursue advanced degrees in education.

From a digital literacy program in Ecuador's rainforest to enhancing math education in Lusaka, Zambia, UCLA's 2014 Global Citizens Fellows demonstrate what can be done with $5,000 and one summer.