Professor Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
The California Educational Research Association (CERA) has selected Professor Jamal Abedi for its 2008 CERA Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is given each year to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to educational research, evaluation, or measurement over a long and illustrious career.
State of the School Report (2008)
Read about the School's progress over its first five years in our State of the School report, released January 2008.
Faculty Research Highlights
More Minorities Go to College, but Many Don't Graduate
March 25, 2008
Even though the number of black and Hispanic students entering college has increased dramatically over the last 30 years, students from these groups still lag well behind white students in earning college degrees, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis.
Michal Kurlaender, assistant professor of education at UC Davis, and co-author Erika Felts, a graduate student in sociology at UC Davis, presented their findings this morning at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in New York City. Their research will also appear in their forthcoming book, "Realizing Bakke's Legacy."
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Are Teachers' Unions Really to Blame?
March 25, 2008
Teachers' unions get most of the blame when restrictive labor contracts prevent school districts from changing teachers' working conditions. But Katharine Strunk, assistant professor of education at the University of California, Davis, argues for a "more holistic" analysis of the effects of teacher contracts on a district's allocation of resources and subsequent student outcomes.
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Computer Games Can Make Kids More Social, Not Less
March 24, 2008
Contrary to common education wisdom, computer games and other technologies can foster community-building, a strong sense of identity and higher-level planning even in very young students, UC Davis researchers report.
"There is a lot of hemming and hawing among educators about the introduction of technology in the early grades," said Cynthia Carter Ching, associate professor of education at the University of California, Davis. "But the worst-case scenarios just don't pan out. Technology can facilitate creativity and social awareness, even when we don't design the use of it to do so. And when we do design technology activities with these things in mind, the possibilities are endless."
To read the full release, visit UC Davis News and Information.