September 29, 2009
Turlock Journal
"High school drop-outs cost state over $1 billion a year"
Article reports on The California Dropout Research study that finds cutting the dropout rate in half would prevent 30,000 juvenile crimes and save $550 million every year; features quotes from CDRP Director Russell Rumberger.
September 29, 2009
Daily Nexus
"Stimulus Funds Researchers"
Article highlights federal stimulus money going to fund UCSB CalTeach gradaute students.
September 25, 2009
Daily Nexus
"UC Buildings Go Green"
Article reports on the environmentally sound design of the new Education Building.
September 24, 2009
CNN
"Dropouts and Crime"
Casey Wian reports on The California Dropout Research study that finds cutting the dropout rate in half would prevent 30,000 juvenile crimes and save $550 million every year; features quotes from CDRP Director Russell Rumberger.
September 24, 2009
Los Angeles Times
"Dropouts costing California $1.1 billion annually in juvenile crime costs"
Article reports on The California Dropout Research study that finds cutting the dropout rate in half would prevent 30,000 juvenile crimes and save $550 million every year; features quotes from CDRP Director Russell Rumberger.
September 17, 2009
Sacramento Bee
"Massive fee hikes planned at University of California"
Gevirtz School graduate student and UC Student Regent Jesse Bernal is one source for an article about UC Regents approving a 32 percent hike in student fees.
September 4, 2009
CNBC.com
"Online Schooling Picks Up Students—and Respect"
Dean Jane Close Conoley is one of several educational experts quoted in an article about the effectiveness and growth of on-line education.
August 19, 2009
Providence Business News
"Five Questions With: Levi C. Maaia"
An interview with Gevirtz School graduate student Levi C. Maaia, who is also a vice president of Full Channel TV Inc., a family-owned cable TV and broadband provider in the East Bay.
Summer 2009
Convergence — The Online Magazine of Engineering and the Sciences at UCSB
"Rain Man and Einstein..."
Article about UCSB's efforts to understand and treat autism that prominently features Lynn Koegel of the Kogel Autism Center.
June 4, 2009
Santa Barbara News-Press
"Recovery funding headed for UCSB" [article behind paywall]
News brief about the Gevirtz School winning a $900,000 Noyce Grant to support mathematics and science teacher education.
May 10, 2009
Santa Barbara News-Press
"Lovingly restored Pleasant Valley School unveiled" [article behind paywall]
Article describes the rededication celebration of the oldest single-room schoolhouse in Santa Barbara County. The project was led by Tina McEnroe, Gevirtz School Dean's Council Member, and the event featured a speech by Dean Jane Close Conoley.
April 13, 2009
USA Today
"Post-Columbine Programs Help Prevent Rampages"
Article about how to lessen school violence includes a quote from Dr. Shane Jimerson, Professor of School Psychology.
February 19, 2009
Santa Barbara Independent
"What Schools Need"
Dean Jane Close Conoley examines how the Gevirtz School can be part of the change President Obama hopes to bring to education in this eidtorial.
January 9, 2009
Santa Barbara Daily Sound
"Grant aimed at college drinking"
Article discussing a DOE grant to prevent high-risk drinking features quotes from from Dr. Merith Cosden.
January 9, 2009
Santa Barbara News-Press
"University gets alcohol education grant" [article behind paywall]
News brief mentions the Gevirtz School is awarded DOE grant.
November 19, 2008
Santa Barbara News-Press
"Helping children to recover from fire" [article behind paywall]
Article examining how parents can help children cope after a wildfire like the Tea Fire featuring advice from Dr. Shane Jimerson.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.