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The Gevirtz School in the News
- November 13, 2008
Santa Barbara Independent
"Education news briefs"
Brief about Kresge Foundation grant awarded to the Gevirtz School.
- November 12, 2008
Santa Barbara News-Press
"Gevirtz School gets $500,000 grant" [article behind paywall]
Brief about Kresge Foundation grant awarded to the Gevirtz School.
- November 9, 2008
Noozhawk
"UCSB’s Gevirtz School a Partner in Education Reform in Bhutan"
- September 22, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle
"43% in state speak other than English in home"
Article about the prevalence of non-English speakers in California features quotes from Professors Jin Sook Lee and Russell Rumberger.
- September 14, 2008
Sacramento Bee
"Fewer and fewer high school students make it to their graduation "
Editorial by Professor Russell Rumberger examining the drop out crisis and suggesting ways to reverse the trends.
- September 12, 2008
KCBS 740AM San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose
"Dismal Outlook For California High School Dropouts"
Story highlights the research of the California Drop Out Research Project.
- July/August 2008
Harvard Education Letter
"Taking the Measure of New Teachers" [PDF]
Teacher Education Program Director Tine Sloan is the major source in an article about the Performance Assesment for California Teachers (PACT).
- August 15, 2008
Santa Barbara News-Press
"Semmel awarded Dickson professorship" [story behind paywall]
Article about Melvin Semmel being awarded the Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship for 2008-2009.
- July 29, 2008
Education Week
"Federal Court Ruling Prods Texas on ELL"
Russell Rumberger is one source in an article about Texas court ruling.
- July 27, 2008
Santa Barbara Independent
"O Is for Obsessive Complusive Disorder"
An interview with CCSP doctoral student Rene Staskal about obsessive compulsive disorder.
- July 20, 2008
New York Times Magazine
"The Next Kind of Integration"
A paper by John Yun and his colleagues is cited as evidence that "it is unlikely that race-neutral income-integration policies will significantly reduce school racial segregation."
- July 18, 2008
redOrbit
"Sticks and Stones Can Break My Bones and Words Can Really Hurt Me"
Jane Close Conley writes an editorial examining how schools have become sites "where conflicting forces of intolerance and more open displays of sexual orientations, of declining levels of adult supervision and greater access to deadly weapons." These changes have led to new challenges for teachers and adminstrators.
- July 18, 2008
KQED's Forum with Michael Krasny
"California High School Drop Out Rate"
Russell Rumberger, Jack O'Connell, superintendent of the California Department of Education, and others discuss reasons for and posible solutions to California's high school drop out problem.
- July 17, 2008
Los Angeles Times
"1 in 4 California high school students drop out, state says"
Russell Rumberger is quoted prominently in an article about new statistics concerning California's high school drop out problem.
- June 26, 2008
San Jose Mercury News
"Middle school critical to students' success in high school"
Russell Rumberger's editorial explores how identifying at-risk students in middle school and providing them with appropriate support and a more suitable environment before they enter high school could vastly improve California's dismal high school graduation rate.
- June 21, 2008
Los Angeles Times
"Graduation rates declining in L.A. Unified despite higher enrollment, study finds"
Hailed as "Perhaps the most in-depth study ever done of Los Angeles dropouts," the California Dropout Research Project is discussed as one expert way to examine--and perhaps help solve--LA Unified's dropout crisis.
- June 20, 2008
Miller-McCune
"Affirmative Action: Shifting Attitudes, Surprising Results"
A three-part article that examines the state of Affirmative Action and that features Gevirtz School professor John Yun and many of the participants in the Policy Day event Realizing Bakke's Legacy: Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity, and Access to Higher Education.
- June 10, 2008
Santa Barbara Independent
"UCSB Grad Student Nominated as UC Student Regent"
Article about Jesse Bernal, doctoral candidate at the Gevitz School.
- May 9, 2008
Education Week
"NAEP Scores in States That Cut Bilingual Ed. Fuel Concern on ELLs"
Article discusses research by the UC LMRI that suggests that in three states where voters decided to replace bilingual education with structured English immersion as the default method for teaching English-language learners, the new approach may be producing less-than-stellar results.
- May 2, 2008
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Researchers Accuse Selective Colleges of Giving Admissions Tests Too Much Weight"
Article discusses John Yun's study to be published in Realizing Bakke's Legacy: Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity, and Access to Higher Education.
- April 28, 2008
Education Week
"Project Aims to Tackle Dropout Problem, California-Style"
Article discusses the California Dropout Research Project.
- April 15, 2008
Miller-McCune
"The Trouble with Genius"
Article discusses the work of the Koegel Autism Center with college-aged people with Asperger's Syndrome.
- March 26, 2008
Inside Higher Ed
"Doomed to Disappoint Justice O'Connor"
Article discusses the state of Affirmative Action 25 years after the Bakke case; Professor John Yun's research mentioned prominently.
- Spring 2008
Coastal Woman Magazine
"I'ts Never Too Late" (see p. 43 of pdf)
Article discusses Niki Sandoval, the first person in the history of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians to receive a doctoral degree.
- Feburary 21, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle
"Dropout data show most kids stay in school"
- Feburary 21, 2008
Los Angeles Times
"California schools with high dropout rates listed"
- January 12, 2008
Santa Barbara Independent
“Gevirtz School, Community Members Talk Educational Policy' - August 30, 2007
Santa Barbara Independent
“Gevirtz Study Examines Fiscal Impact of Dropouts'
- July 29, 2007
Center for Public Education
Article discusses the success of No Child Left Behind and presents the arguments of Professor John Yun.
- July 20, 2007
KSBY TV (San Luis Obispo/Santa Barbara)
First Member of Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Receives Ph.D.