The UCI School of Education has received a three-year, $1.25 million research award from the NewSchools Venture Fund’s EF+Math Program to introduce Fraction Ball in the Santa Ana Unified School District. With the innovative mathematics game, arcs and colors are added to the design of a basketball court, helping children visualize equivalencies between fractions and […]
UCI School of Education teaching credentials paved the way
Emily Penner, assistant professor of education, and her research partners have received the 2020 Community Outcomes and Impact Award from the International Association for Research on Service-Learning & Community Engagement. Her research partners are Thomas Dee, a professor in Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, and Bill Sanderson, assistant superintendent of high schools in the […]
Funds will support student learning and research in quantum science
School of Education dean Richard Arum and distinguished professor Greg Duncan have been named to the 2021 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings. The annual list recognizes the 200 university-based scholars in the country who had the most influence on educational practice and policy. Arum is principal investigator of the Next-Generation Undergraduate Success Measurement Project, supported […]
UCI School of Education helps students, instructors navigate changing landscape
June Ahn, associate professor of education, has received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to conduct a study identifying factors that motivate youth toward occupational careers. Ahn and his team will be working with K-12 after-school program educators and participants to gain an understanding of the key experiences that shape […]
George Farkas, UCI Distinguished Professor of education, has been named co-PI for a two-year, $500,000 Institute of Education Sciences grant that will analyze special education services. The team will examine data from the 1998 and 2011 Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies, as well as seven National Assessment of Education Progress reports dating back to 2003. In […]
Stephanie Reich, UCI associate professor of education, has received a two-year, $150,000 grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to research how digital media influences child development. Data from her earlier NICHD-funded Baby Books 2 project will be used to describe the media habits of ethnically and linguistically […]