The faculty at the School of Education are committed to bridging
research and practice for the benefit of schools and learners.
They do their work in a collaborative and cross-disciplinary
environment that favors innovation and cooperation with all
segments of education.
Cary Trexler, associate professor in the School of Education and
the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, received a
three-year $500,000 grant from the United States Agency for
International Development’s (USAID) Horticulture Collaborative
Research and Support Program to enhance vegetable production by
small farmers in Cambodia and Vietnam.
Professor Jamal Abedi and UCLA’s CRESST Director Joan Herman have
been named to the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium
Technical Advisory Committee. The Consortium includes more than
30 states working collaboratively to prepare all students for
college and careers by creating a comprehensive assessment system
in mathematics and language arts. Read more here.
Professor Rebecca Ambrose received a four-year grant for $525,000
from the California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC) to
strengthen mathematics teaching and learning in an elementary
school district in North Sacramento.
Professors Jamal Abedi, principal investigator, and Paul Heckman,
co-investigator, received a five-year $3.2 million dollar grant
from the National Science Foundation. Work on “Formative
Assessment in Mathematics: Current Status and Guidelines for
Future Developments” starts on September 1, 2010.
Heidi Ballard, an assistant professor in the School of Education,
has been selected to be a 2010-2011 UC Davis Hellman Fellow and
will receive an award of $20,409 to be used in support of her
research activities.
June 2010 – Michal Kurlaender, an associate professor in the
School of Education, has been awarded a $1.8 million federal
grant to study a unique California program established six years
ago to help high school students better prepare for college.
Thirty of the School’s faculty, students and researchers present
their latest research at the annual conference of the American
Educational Research Association (AERA) in New Orleans on April
8-12, 2011.
Learn more about the School’s latest research presented at the
conference this year. Download the School’s Education Research
Newsletter.
