There is a lot happening at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Stud-ies. As one of the top graduate schools in the nation, our work is enlightening information science and practice and transforming learn-ing and schools in Los Angeles and across the globe. Here is a quick look at what’s going on this fall. The Graduate School of Education and In-formation Studies celebrated the new school year with a convocation ceremony on Septem-ber 27 welcoming students and faculty back to campus. This fall 904 graduate students will join with 61 faculty members as well as other researchers and staff in research and learning activities ranging from the study of knowledge infrastructures to the impact of trauma on learning. Among those graduate students will be some 126 new teaching candidates in UCLA’s Center X Teacher Education Program and 34 education leaders in the Principal Leadership Institute learning to make a difference as social justice educators.

Conferences & ColloquiaPlans are underway to bring some big thinkers to campus this fall. Information Studies professor Sarah T. Roberts is leading the development of the All Things in Moderation Conference De-cember 6-7, exploring the red-hot topic of com-mercial content moderation. Information Stud-ies is also promoting the exchange of intellectual ideas through the IS Colloquium series start-ing on October 12 with a visit from Astrid Von Rosen, Senior Lecturer, Art History and Visual

Studies, University of Gothenburg. More great IS sessions to follow. On September 28, Julia Phelan, senior research scientist at UCLA CRESST, moderated an expert panel exploring What’s the Evidence: Do After School Programs Make a Difference for Kids? And on October 26, Ed&IS will gather brain ex-perts, educators and others to explore learning differences and strategies to address them at the Education–Brain Research Connection, 2017 Cognitive Diversity Summit at UCLA. Connie Kasari, Professor of Psychological Studies in Ed-ucation and Psychiatry at Ed&IS and director of the Kasari Autism Research Lab, Jennie Gram-mer, Assistant Professor, UCLA Graduate School of Education/Human Development and Psy-chology and Maryanne Wolf, Director, Center for Reading and Language Research, Tufts Uni-versity, will present. The new UCLA Center for School Transformation led by Distinguished Professor of Education Pedro Noguera and di-rector Joe Bishop kicks off with a 2-day summit on November 8 and 9: Reimagine Education. On November 4, the UCLA Writing Project and Center X hosts, With Different Eyes: A Confer-ence for Teachers of Diverse English Learners Across the Disciplines. Django Paris, co-author and co-editor of “Culturally Sustaining Pedago-gies” keynotes. Bruins at Ed&IS also head off campus to share the word. Wasserman Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco travels to Rome in November to share the findings from last spring’s inter-national workshop at UCLA with the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Humanitarianism and

Mass Migration. The findings will be present-ed at the Vatican during a meeting “Health of People and Planet: Our Responsibility.” The meeting will be attended by leaders from na-tions across the globe, government officials, leading academic thinkers and theologians and activists.

Research and LearningAs always, research and learning are at the forefront of the work at Ed&IS. In Septem-ber, Professor and Co-Director of the UCLA Civil Rights Project (CRP) Gary Orfield and researcher Jongyeon Ee publish new CRP re-search commissioned by the Leroy Collins In-stitute at Florida State University examining the re-segregation of Florida Schools. CRP is examining segregation and charter schools, with additional looks at these issues in New Jersey and Washington D.C. UCLA Professor and CRP co-director Patricia Gándara contin-ues work on the UC Mexico Initiative and is leading the process to establish ties between the California Department of Education and the education department in Mexico. CRP will publish new research detailing the plight of stu-dents we share across the border between Cal-ifornia and Mexico. UCLA Black Male Institute doctoral student Earl Edwards, who last spring published a commentary in Education Week entitled “Advice From a Formerly Homeless Youth”, continues with the Institute’s growing work and research looking at vulnerable popu-lations across Los Angeles, including homeless and foster youth.

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Information Studies Distinguished Profes-sor Christine Borgman and her team at the Center for Knowledge Structures contin-ue their major study, “If Data Sharing is the Answer, What is the Question?” Education Professor Linda Sax is currently leading the BRAID (Building Recruiting and Inclusion for Diversity) research project, a study focused on efforts to attract and retain women and students of color in computing majors. This fall, the team will attend industry and schol-arly conferences around the country and ad-minister follow-up surveys to thousands of computing students nationwide. Professor Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, the direc-tor of the Higher Education Research Insti-tute (HERI), and her team are analyzing data from a new research effort, “Improving the Financial Aid Process in Community Colleges Through Text Messaging”, a study of more than 1,000 students examining the use of texting to assist community college students in accessing needed resources and support. The research will be submitted for publica-tion later this fall. HERI has also already begun gathering data for the 2017 version of its annual survey of “The American Freshman.” The survey is led by Assistant Professor Kevin Eagan, director of the Cooperative Institu-tional Research Program. Professor Carola Suárez-Orozco and the team at the UCLA Center on Immigration, Globalization and Education are reviewing and coding of thousands of hours of class-room video in a systematic examination of the enactment of teacher bias in the classroom. Professor Alison Bailey and Professor Rash-mita Mistry continue their evaluation of the Learning in Two Languages program (now known as Three Bs/Tres Bs), at UCLA Lab School. To date, the study has revealed pre-dominantly successful trajectories of student Spanish and English language proficiency and academic performance in English and math-ematics, and provided an understanding of students’ cognitive, social and intrapersonal development in bilingual contexts. In Octo-ber, Bailey and Mistry will share their research with parents at the Lab School. Working with UCLA colleagues and teachers at the Lab School, Mistry is also exploring the attitudes

of young children about wealth and poverty including an intervention study to design, im-plement, and evaluate an arts-based inquiry unit to teach children about wealth, poverty and civic responsibility. Bailey also received a new NSF grant and is beginning work with Abeer Alawan of UCLA Engineering and the MIT Media Lab to conduct language and liter-acy development research at the Lab School with Kindergartners in the iSTEAM Lab and their families. Professor John Rogers co-edits the Octo-ber issue of PS: Political Science and Politics, one of the flagship journals of the American Political Science Association. The issue fea-tures a special section on teaching and learn-ing about economic inequality. Rogers co-au-thored the issue’s introductory article, as well as another about teaching about economic inequality in U.S. high schools. Also includ-ed is an article by UCLA’s Professor Rashmita Mistry (with several students and former stu-dents) entitled “The Politics and Pedagogy of Economic Inequality,” as well as highlights of a roundtable featuring Professor Pedro Nogu-era among others. Distinguished Education Research Pro-fessor Sandra Harding is helping to launch a new open access journal: Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Soci-ety. Created through affiliations with the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) and the Associación Latinoamericana de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tec-nologia and others, the journal seeks to explore the diversity and richness of Latin American STS issues, perspectives and re-search methods and to examine the cre-ative flows of influence between Latin America and Euro-American cultures. UCLA Professor of Education Teresa Mc-Carty is a member of the journal’s Interna-tional Advisory Board. Important projects, new and old are also underway this fall. Professor Carola Suárez-Orozco and Dean Marcelo Suárez- Orozco joined with Adam Strom to launch Re-imagining Migration a new organiza-tion created to foster understanding about the successful inclusion of migrant youth across the globe. There is a new website

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n Information Studies Associate Professor Sarah T. Roberts is putting the final touches on her forthcoming book Behind the Screen: Digitally Laboring in Social Media’s Shadow World. The book builds on Roberts’s much cited work exploring commercial content moderation and its impact on workers.

nComparing Ethnographies: Local Studies of Education Across the Americas,

edited by Education Professor Kathryn Anderson-Levitt with Elise Rockwell, published by AERA. The new book argues for crossing borders to compare ethnographic research across the Americas. Chapters

are co-authored by ethnographers from two different nations and call into question familiar interpretations of concepts like “minorities,” “migrants,” and “multicultural education.”

nInformation Studies Associate Professor Ramesh Srinivasan, who last spring published Whose Global Village? Rethinking How Technology Impacts Our World with NYU Press, is working to wrap up After the Internet (with Adam Fish) for Polity Press with plans for release in December.

nTeacher Education Program Faculty Advisor Jeff Share, whose new book Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents:

Reading, Writing, and Making a Difference, was published this summer, will publish a new article, Preparing Educators to Teach Critical Media Literacy, in The SoJo Journal from Information Age Publishing.

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offering information and resources for ed-ucators, and in November, the project will launch a new I’m-Migration digital story telling application to gather and share the experiences and stories of migrants. Information Studies Professor Anne Gilliland continues her work with the Archival Education and Research Initiative to create a larger more diverse cohort of doctoral students in archival studies through the Emerging Archival Scholars Program.

UCLA Education Partnership SchoolsThe largest new project is the launch of the new UCLA Mann Community School in South Los Angeles. After months of planning and preparation, classes got underway with 500 students in August with seven new teach-ers hired from the UCLA Teacher Education Program. UCLA will bring ideas, resources and support to the partnership with the LAUSD, parents and community members to trans-form learning opportunities for students. Al-ready, there is a new robotics club and plans for a “Math Concert” for families to engage students in math activities and provide in-formation to support mathematical thinking at home. The Center X Parent Project will host SciGirls at the school to motivate tween girls in science, technology, engineering, and math, and encourage community engage-ment around STEM. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block will join with UCLA undergrads to help out at the school on UCLA Volunteer Day on October 7. A new school year has also begun at the first UCLA Community School at the Robert F. Kennedy school site in the Pico/Union area of Los Angeles. A little more than 1,000 students in grades K-12, parents and community members join with teach-ers, school administrators, staff, communi-ty members and UCLA staff and volunteers in a groundbreaking effort that has seen high school graduation, college-going and persistence rates rise significantly. Be sure to check out their new website, which includes the final 2016-17 annual report showing how the school is advancing learn-ing and furthering the community schools movement. (https://uclacs.org/) This fall, the Community School is expanding its K-5 Spanish and Korean bilingual program to K-12. Among other activities, Barbara

Drucker, Associate Dean of Arts and Ar-chitecture at UCLA, will be teaching an art seminar class with our Grace Maddox, who was recently awarded LAUSD Teacher of the Year. The paintings created will be auc-tioned off to support college scholarships at the school. UCLA Emeritus Professor Wellford “Buzz” Wilms, will publish “Blind to Injustice: How I Learned to See from Eight Years on the Streets with the LAPD and the People”, a new book challenging misconceptions of life in South Los Angeles. Wilms is collaborating with the new Mann UCLA Community School to bring trained UCLA undergraduate mediators to work at the site to reduce conflict among stu-dents and teach alternatives to violence.

Professional Learning Opportunities For EducatorsWorking to strengthen teaching and learn-ing, Ed&IS is providing professional learning opportunities to educators across the south-land. Professor William Sandoval and Center X Science Project Director Lynn Kim Jong continue their work to help teachers in Mon-tebello and other school districts deepen their knowledge of science and improve sci-ence teaching practices. As they do, they are helping educators to understand and use the new Next Generation Science Standards. The Science Project is also working with the LAUSD and area museums to further infor-mal science instruction access. The Califor-nia Mathematics Project is holding Lesson Study facilitator training September 28-29 in San Diego to build the capacity of CMP sites in CA to increase the pedagogical content knowledge of mathematics teachers. Center X Coaching Partnerships holds an eight-day seminar on Cognitive Coaching Foundations to help educators develop the knowledge and skills to support the complex intellectu-al process of teaching. In October, the UCLA Mathematics Project held a two-day semi-nar to help teachers and administrators learn Cognitively Guided Instruction strategies and practices to help second language learners advance their mathematical knowledge and language. The work of the UCLA National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Project continues in October and November as teachers take part in learning activities in pursuit of National Board Certification.

In late September and October, the Pro-fessional Learning Program hosts the 2nd Annual Argentina Institute working with more than 200 educators from Argentina to share information on the latest research, training and resources for educational prac-tices and leadership development. Center X also launches a new Institute for Cultur-al Sustainability & Educational Equity, led by Director Tonikiaa Orange. The Institute is working with educators to develop their knowledge and understanding of why and how culture is connected to teaching and learning and to serve as a catalyst toward greater equity for students in schools. Senior Researcher Jane Margolis and Julie Flapan, director of the Computer Science Project at Center X, are working with policymakers, ed-ucators, and advocates in preparation for the launch of CSforCA, a new campaign advocat-ing for high quality K-12 computer science ed-ucation and access for all students.

New Courses & New PeopleInformation Studies is launching an import-ant new course on privacy and information technology taught by Distinguished Profes-sor Christine Borgman. Professor Carola Suárez-Orozco will teach Socialization: Making the Rules of the Academy Transpar-ent. And Assistant Professor David G. Garcia, will teach Applying History Methods to Ed-ucational Research. The course focuses on the application of history methods to educa-tion with a special emphasis on the under re-searched histories of people of color. Ed&IS is pleased to welcome two new people. Miriam Posner joins the Information Studies faculty as an assistant professor in in-formation studies and digital humanities. And Brian Schottlaender joins IS as the new direc-tor of the Senior Fellows program, engaging future academic library leaders on approach-es to issues confronting academic institutions and their libraries. As you can see, a lot is happening and there is probably more. But with apologies to the many faculty, staff and projects that may not have been mentioned, that’s it for now. Happy Fall.

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