Building Research Alongside the People It Serves: Julissa O. Muñiz’ Work with Incarcerated Youth
UCLA assistant professor Julissa O. Muñiz studies how incarceration shapes the education and lives of young people, especially Latina and Black girls and women. Her research draws on her own family’s experiences and is built in partnership with the communities it serves.
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Never Set Adrift: How LISAA Keeps UCLA Information Studies Graduates Connected
For more than a decade, the Library and Information Studies Alumni Association (LISAA) has connected UCLA Information Studies students with alumni across libraries and archives. Through mentorship, mock interviews, and career panels, it helps graduates move from the classroom into the profession, and keeps them connected long after.
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Growing Their Own: New Research Explores Rural Teacher Residencies
In Round Valley, aspiring teachers ride a bus together once a month to take university courses so they can teach in their own community. New UCLA research looks at how rural teacher residencies like this one are turning local strengths into a lasting answer to California’s teacher shortage.
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Where Literacy and Technology Meet: A Shared Vision for Humanity
As reading scores fall and AI spreads into every corner of life, two UCLA scholars argue that we’re in a “battle for humanity.” Maryanne Wolf and Ramesh Srinivasan discuss what’s at stake for young minds, democracy, and our shared future.
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“How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America”
In her award-winning book, UCLA associate professor Laura Chávez-Moreno draws on years of research in a bilingual education program to show how schools shape ideas about race, often without meaning to. She also explains how educators can teach about race in ways that challenge racism.
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Educating in Dangerous Times: A Call to Reenvision Public School in America
Sixty years ago, James Baldwin told teachers they were living in “a very dangerous time.” UCLA professor John Rogers argues that the warning applies again today, and his new book invites educators, families, and communities to reimagine public schools together.
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Inquiry in Action: Spotlights seven of the School’s 27 research centers and projects—each translating inquiry into meaningful action that shapes education, equity, and innovation across communities.
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