Patricia Gandara: The Sprint

Education Professor Patricia Gandara argues that we should make education an issue.

Linda Sax: The Gender Gap

Women have the numbers but find college is still a struggle.

UCLA Writing Project Korean Academy

UCLA summer program strengthens writing skills for Korean students.

Ifeoma Amah - Outstanding Graduate Student

Ifeoma Amah ’02 has been named a 2008 Outstanding Graduate Student. Amah received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and a minor in education from UCLA in 2002. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSE&IS), Division of Urban Schooling.

UCLA Announces Partnership with LAUSD

The UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies has been selected as the Los Angeles Unified School District's first partner to operate one of five pilot schools united by a social justice philosophy.

Bruin Community School Backgrounder

Get the basics on UCLA's new partnership with LAUSD, Bruin Community School.

Professor Johanna Drucker Joins IS

Professor Johanna Drucker has joined the faculty of the UCLA Department of Information Studies as the inaugural holder of the Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professorship in Bibliography.

Professor Drucker is a highly distinguished, creative and prolific cultural historian and visual theorist, whose publications include Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity (University of Chicago Press, 2005), Theorizing Modernism (Columbia University Press, 1994), The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art (University of Chicago Press, 1994), The Alphabetic Labyrinth (Thames and Hudson, 1995), and The Century of Artists' Books (Granary Books, 1996). She is also a skilled printer and is internationally known as a book artist. She comes to UCLA from the University of Virginia, where she held the Robertson Chair in Media Studies in the Department of English and served as the first director of the Media Studies program she developed there. Prior to her appointments at Virginia, she was on the faculties of Purchase College, SUNY; Yale University; Columbia University, and the University of Texas, Dallas.