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The Gevirtz School in the News
- 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.
- July 12, 2007
Sacramento Bee
Professor Russell Rumberger’s editorial “Seeking Solutions to Dropout Crisis”
- June 27, 2007
School Library Journal
Writer Amy Bowllan discusses Professor Patrick Faverty’s article on technology and teaching.