K-12 Education: Creating a Foundation / UCLA Impact

K-12 Education: Creating a Foundation

The Fowler Museum at UCLA gives local K-12 students the chance to experience and learn about art from around the world through guided tours and in-depth classroom instruction, and provides teachers with professional development opportunities.

A Learning Experiment

Corrine A. Seeds University Elementary School, UCLA’s laboratory elementary school and center for research on education, is a place where inquiry is aided and encouraged and where teachers and students can feel confident trying out new ideas and stretching their capacities. <more>

Teaching the Teachers

For the last decade, Center X, the umbrella organization for teacher education and professional development at UCLA, has been working hard to radically improve urban schooling for Los Angeles’ children. <more>

Teaching to Change LA

TCLA, an online journal that addresses educational conditions in Los Angeles schools, creates a unique environment in which urban students, parents and teachers can be heard beyond their local classrooms. <more>

Teaching Kids about the World

Outreach World, a website hosted by the UCLA International Institute, serves as a comprehensive one-stop resource for teaching international and area studies and foreign languages in the K-12 classroom. <more>

Numbers Gap

In 2005, UCLA and other UC campuses launched an ambitious system-wide initiative to produce 1,000 math and science K-12 teachers annually by 2010. <more>

K-12 education, particularly for schools in urban areas, faces many challenges in the quest to provide quality instruction to America’s youth. Improper or insufficient professional teacher training, a lack of teachers committed to underserved communities, and a dearth of the critical funding necessary to provide students and teachers with the proper tools to excel are just a few of the major barriers to successful education.

At UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, Center X and its affiliated centers, UCLA researchers utilize interdisciplinary collaboration to invite and explore new perspectives on the critical issues affecting this country’s elementary and secondary students. UCLA is committed to improving schools and teaching for low-income, minority, and limited English-proficient children and helping schools become rich and caring learning environments. By educating the educators, improving educational practices, and committing teachers to underserved schools, UCLA helps to provide all students with access to a quality education. The future of California depends on it.

The Department of Education at GSE&IS is ranked number 2 in the country by U.S. News & World Report.
Students at UES, regardless of income, outperformed national sample groups in both math and reading portions of the Stanford-9 test.

Walking and Chewing Gum

The lives of our kids are busier than ours ever were, and they have become masters in the area of multi-tasking, but is that making them smarter? UCLA Associate Professor of Psychology Russ Poldrack doesn’t think so. <more>

They do more than just pass out knowledge around here. They create it.

All Schools are not Created Equal

Michael Stoll, professor of public policy and urban planning and acting director of the Center for the Study of Urban Poverty, prepared a telling report for California’s Legislative Black Caucus on the quality gap in black education. <more>