History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Research
2011 Educational Opportunity Report: Free Fall
Feb. 10-11: Social Justice Schools Conference
The Latest from IDEA
A newsfeed on the most current research, news, and events at IDEA.
Feb. 10-11: Social Justice Schools Conference
The Coalition for Educational Justice (CEJ) will hold a two-day conference Friday and Saturday to discuss school transformation and reform rooted in social justice.
IDEA Director John Rogers will speak during Saturday morning panel about educational justice in an era of new capitalism.
Also speaking will be Bill Fletcher, labor leader and civil rights activist. Fletcher will discuss the attacks on public sector and the need for organizing strategy.
The conference will also hold more than 10 workshops led by students, parents and teachers on current work that embodies community-driven, democratic, culturally relevant and transformative practices.
Topics include:
- Balanced Literacy
- Dual Language Programs
- Alternative Teacher Evaluation Systems
- Problem-based, community-connected instruction
- Restorative justice/alternative discipline
Social Justice Schools Conference
WHEN: Friday, Feb. 10 - Saturday, Feb. 11
TIME Friday from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
LOCATION: UCLA Community School, 3201 W. 8th St., Los Angeles, CA 90005
RSVP to jimenez.rosa@gmail.com or 909-753-9007
*Childcare, food and translation services provided both days
Jan. 29: Oral history series highlights Council leader
Antero Garcia, graduate student researcher working with IDEA's Council of Youth Research, was highlighted in NPR's StoryCorps series.
"Dropout has thanks, not blame, for teacher" aired Sunday on NPR's Weekend Edition as part of the National Teachers' Initiative, which relates stories of public school teachers across the country. The initiative is part of StoryCorps, an American oral history nonprofit.
Garcia, a teacher at Manual Arts High School in East Los Angeles, was reunited with a former student who had dropped out of high school in his senior year.
Roger Ramos, now 22, was asked if anything could have been done differently that would have helped him stay in school.
"...you were a good teacher, and I always respected you," Ramos said of Garcia. "Some teachers, I kind of felt like they only wanted to teach a certain group of people. But you looked at me and you paid attention.
"Maybe it didn't get me to graduate, but there's a lot of teachers, they don't take the time to take a look. And it was never your fault."
Listen to the full conversation.
New information on high school reform
A new Q&A on Linked Learning has been uploaded to our site.
For those interested in high school reform and want to learn a more about this approach that connects academics with real-world applications, visit our Linked Learning page. There you'll find links to the new Q&A and upcoming research.
UCLA IDEA will soon publish a Linked Learning guidebook, based on our research of 10 sites throughout California.
Jan. 4: Changes to online 'Roundup'
Starting Wednesday, Jan. 4, the UCLA IDEA website will no longer post individual articles from the daily Education News Roundup.
A link from the IDEA Home page will be provided to the most current version of the Roundup.
The change will not affect subscribers who will continue to receive the Roundup and Themes in the News as a daily email. It will also continue to be available on Twitter @UCLA_IDEA and on Facebook.com/uclaidea.
The website will also stop archiving past news stories, opinions and blogs. Anyone interested in finding a past copy of the Roundup or story, can contact Claudia Bustamante at 310-267-4408 or bustamante@gseis.ucla.edu.
Read today's roundup here.
Dec. 16: California's 'Parent Trigger' law draws international attention
England-based Times Education Supplement wrote about the growing U.S. movement of giving parents more power in reforming low-performing schools.
California was the first state to pass a Parent Trigger law, allowing parents to seek one of four reform options if more than half families at low-performing schools sign a petition. Last year, parents at Compton's McKinley Elementary were the first to "pull the trigger."
UCLA IDEA John Rogers was interviewed for the piece, The view from here - California, US - "Trigger law" allows parents to call the shots. He was particularly concerned with the trigger/gun metaphor. "Rather than encouraging parents and educators to collaborate in the search for solutions, it pits one against the other. Rogers understands why parents are angry, but fears the focus on a one-time mobilisation offers only an illusion of power," according to the article.
Read full article here.
Send this
Print this
