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January 26, 2022

Students from low-income families are increasingly isolated in the nation’s schools, complicating efforts to remedy ‘learning loss’ during the pandemic, study finds

Students in a lineElementary students from low-income families increasingly attend different schools than middle-class peers—a nationwide trend that holds negative consequences for learning among kids who are living in poverty, 

December 15, 2021

Funding awarded to UC Berkeley to ‘fulfill the equity promise’ of California’s Universal Transitional Kindergarten

Kindergartners playing Leadership Programs in the UC Berkeley School of Education will bring a focus on equity to training and supporting educational leaders at the dawn of the Universal Transitional Kindergarten (UTK) program in California, thanks in part to combined one-year funding of $250,000, awarded by the Silver Giving Foundation and Heising Simons Founda

August 9, 2021

Tips for Teachers on the First Day Back

The beginning of the school year is always an exciting time, but it can also be quite anxiety-provoking for many students. Some students are attending school for the first time and others are moving into a new classroom with a teacher and peers they do not yet know.

In the 2021–2022 school year, beginning of the year anxieties may be magnified, as many students and their teachers will be returning to the classroom for the first time in more than a year. Here is a list of five things that teachers should consider doing on the first day of class.

Math at Your Fingertips

An internet search for “math manipulatives” turns up 19.6 million results in a little more than a half second. Kits containing plastic beads, coins and animal shapes; flash cards; and wooden blocks in a rainbow of colors range from $29.49 to more than $300.

For César Botetano, a GSE collaborating scholar from Lima, Peru, the best math manipulatives are free, and right at our fingertips. Literally.

Fatigued or not, teacher say they need support, too

A study of 321 educators (teachers and staff) conducted after the first three months of remote instruction in 2020, found that despite respondents having varying degrees of either feeling effective in their online teaching or fatigued (stress, burnout), nearly all (93%) indicated that they themselves would need social/emotional support from their school upon the return to in-person instruction.

August 2, 2021

Undoing Disparities in Student Engagement

Teachers have taught us much about how to foster rich engagement with students despite our shared struggles during the pandemic.

In a research brief, Reimagining Schools? Undoing Disparities in Student Engagement, Professors Bruce Fuller and Zachary Pardos describe lessons learned from 18 California charter schools as their research team analyzed 44 class sessions taught via Zoom over a 15-month period.

July 19, 2021

California 100 Grant to Evaluate Education for California’s Future

The Graduate School of Education (GSE) and the Berkeley Institute for Young Americans (BIFYA) announced today that they are the recipients of a research award from California 100, an ambitious statewide initiative to envision and shape the long-term success of the state.

May 3, 2021

In Memoriam: Jean Yonemura Wing, PhD ’02, MA ’98

GSE alumna Jean Yonemura Wing, PhD ’02, MA ’98, who served as Executive Director of Research, Assessment and Data in the Oakland Unified School District for 16 years, and was a member of the OUSD-UC Berkeley Research-Practice Partnership steering committee, passed away March 29, 2021, at the age of 70. Although employed by the Oakland Unified School District, her commitment to educational equity and social justice knew no bounds.