Tag: education
The way California funds public education needs to change
The way California funds public education leaves much to be desired. The state has created a system that perpetuates class divides by favoring the...
UCR Graduate School of Education offers “debt-free” special education degrees
The Graduate School of Education (GSOE) created the Special Education Scholars Program (SESP) last January in the efforts to address shortages of special education...
Concerns over new Title IX regulations raise questions for UC policy
In November 2018, the Department of Education released new regulatory proposals to Title IX. According to the press release the “proposed rule seeks to...
UC Riverside partners with ARL-West to develop technology for soldiers
For the first time ever within the UC system, the Army Research Laboratory West (ARL-West) has partnered with UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE),...
New STEM High School promises wide benefits, overlooks associated challenges
The UCR Academic Senate recently released a summary of a draft agreement reached between UCR, Riverside Unified School District and the City of Riverside...
Jennifer Brown to lead Undergraduate Education at UCR
Jennifer Brown, former vice provost and dean of the Graduate School at Oregon State University, has been named to lead UCR’s Office of Undergraduate...
Teachers’ walkouts in Oklahoma should inspire more education investment across the...
The recent teachers’ walkout in Oklahoma, which follows a series of teacher protests and walkouts in other states in past months, has highlighted yet...
UCR researcher attempts to benchmark student success
When she was a young teacher, Linda Navarrette, a researcher at UCR’s Graduate School of Education, made a trip to South Africa where she...
Op-Ed: Empowering foster care individuals
Did you graduate high school? According to the National Foster Youth Institute, for 84 percent of the U.S. population, including myself, the answer is...
Op-Ed: Reframing campus free speech debates, creating conditions for desirable education
Debates about “free speech” rage on college campuses today. That the contours of these debates differ from the issues that gave rise to the...