Department of Education Research Impact
Learning and Development
Rooted in the belief that intellect is a treasure and access to resources is an inherent right, our approach to learning and development seeks to cultivate equity and confront systemic inequity. Through research, teaching, and community engagement, we work to reshape how classrooms and communities function and who they serve, empowering learners to grow, question, and lead transformative change.
Highlights of Our Work
New Book Examines Language’s Impact on Social Justice
UCLA Professor of Education, Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez, co-edits seminal volume exploring the interface between language and political, economic, and cultural issues in global perspectives.
Community College Pipeline to Higher Education for CA’s Latinx Transfer Students
New research from the Center for Critical Race Studies in Education examines the need for stronger supports and partnerships to improve academic outcomes for underserved and underrepresented students.
A Passion for Community-Engaged Environmental Education
Chris Jadallah’s work with Black Thumb Farm piloting a small research and design project looking at the relationship between gardening the land and our relationship to it.
Policy and Practice Work of Community Schools
University-partnered schools provide opportunities for researchers to work inside schools, shaping change and providing tangible contributions within the expanding policy landscape of new school options.
Educational Leadership Program Dissertation Brief Series
EdD students address diverse problems of practice and questions of equity across PreK–16, higher education and nonprofit sectors.
California’s Effort to Expand Transitional Kindergarten
Professor of Education, Anna Markowitz discusses California’s passing of the Kindergarten Readiness Act, creating a program of Transitional Kindergarten which offered four-year-old children born in a four-month window each year access to an extra year of high-quality learning experiences.
Design-Based Learning
The Starter City of the Future Guidebook:. One of the cornerstones of the Design-Based Learning Project, this guidebook shares the pathway for educators.
Engaging K-12 Audiences in Archival Studies and memory Work
Thuy Vo Dang, assistant professor of Information Studies, discusses how an understanding of memory work and archives will enhance K-12 learning, with ways to preserve and empower marginalized communities.
Exploring Innovative In-School and Out-of-School Programs
Marjorie Elaine authors University-Community Partnerships for Transformative Education: Sowing Seeds of Resistance and Renewal.
The Impact of University-Led Community Engagement
Our department’s definition of community engagement comes from the Carnegie Elective Classification. Community engagement is “…collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.
Our Partnership Schools
Our partnership schools create an ecosystem of PreK-12 teaching schools where UCLA can partner to develop, study, share, and advance innovative best practices.
