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  • CRESST Director Li Cai to Collaborate on Newly Awarded Federal Grant to UCLA Health

    September 9, 2024

    An initiative led by the National Institute of Mental Health is now underway to find new measures to more accurately measure and compare the quality of the various mental health treatments. UCLA Health researchers were awarded a four-year, $2.1 million federal grant to study and test whether such a quality measure can be created and […]

  • CRESST Founding Director, Dr. Eva Baker, Ranked as One of the Top Public Scholars in Education

    January 15, 2024

    In the 14th annual Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, EducationWeek contributor Rick Hess ranks the top 200 public scholars in education. In a post describing the rubric for evaluation, Hess shares scoring methods as well as names of members of the diverse selection committee. Eleven faculty from the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies are included in the […]

  • Xin Tao Wins Linn Memorial Lecture Award

    April 17, 2018

    On behalf of the Robert L. Linn Memorial Award committee, CRESST is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2018 Robert L. Linn Memorial Lecture Award. Professor Xin Tao of Beijing Normal University has been chosen as the 2018 recipient for his scholarly contributions, his policy advisory work, his service to the profession, and his […]

  • UCLA GSE&IS Ranks #3 In U.S. Education Schools

    March 20, 2017

    The annual survey of graduate schools by U.S. News and World Report ranked the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences third in the nation among education schools, tied with the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. UCLA was one of the only three West Coast schools and the only UC in the […]

  • Joan Herman Honored with Membership to National Academy of Education

    June 1, 2016

    Congratulations to CRESST’s Joan Herman, who has been chosen as a member of the National Academy of Education, a prestigious organization consisting of 199 U.S. members and 11 foreign associates who are elected on the basis of outstanding scholarship related to education.  Joan represents the rich diversity of fields that study education.