The centers and institutes below furnish SE&IS with valuable resources that support school programs and research. See research centers.
The Black Male Institute (BMI) is a cadre of scholars, practitioners, community members, and policymakers dedicated to improving the educational experiences and life chances of black males. Educational settings are considered to be critical spaces for developing informed action to address black male persistence in schooling, recognizing that the challenges that impact the academic success of black males are manifold, be they economic, social, legal, or health-related.
The UCLA CalKIDS Institute amplifies, strengthens, and evaluates the new statewide children’s savings account program, the California Kids Investment and Development Savings Program (CalKIDS). The institute is committed to economic equity, higher education access, and the financial well-being of families.
The Center for Community Schooling is a campus-wide initiative to advance university-assisted community schools. As stable anchor institutions, universities play a unique role as K-12 community school partners. Its research, teaching, and service missions inform and are informed by the work of local schools and communities.
The work of the Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2) explores interdisciplinary intersections of digital technologies and society, with the goal of creating fairness, justice, equity, and sustainability in relationship to our technological engagements.
The Center for Critical Race Studies in Education (CCRSE) along with the staff, visiting scholars, and invited authors are dedicated to producing and publishing research with the goal of exploring questions related to theoretical frameworks, methodology, methods, conceptual tools, and practice associated with critical race studies.
The Center's aim is to provide local, state, national, and global leadership in the field, leveraging groundbreaking advances in cognitive and neurosciences, linguistics, and education to inform and transform K-12 teaching and learning.
The Center for Information as Evidence (CIE) is an interdisciplinary forum to address the ways in which information objects and systems are created, used, and preserved as legal, administrative, scientific, social, cultural, and historical evidence. CIE is committed to incorporating perspectives from ethnic communities around the world, to sustain the diversity within indigenous cultural heritages and broaden methods of information analysis and conservation.
The Center for Knowledge Infrastructures (CKI) conducts research on scientific data practices and policy, scholarly communication, and sociotechnical systems. It explores methods of data collection, innovations in scaling and workflows, and multidisciplinary approaches to complex problems.
The Center for Research and Innovation in Elementary Education, also known as CONNECT, links nationally recognized researchers with teachers and administrators at UCLA Lab School and public schools in Southern California to investigate central issues in education. Programs examine children’s learning and development from preschool to sixth grade; investigate teaching diverse student populations; encourage exchange of ideas among scholars, practitioners, and policymakers concerned with child development and school reform; and disseminate effective educational approaches and research.
The Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) is devoted to educational research, development, training, and dissemination. CRESST supplies leadership in these areas by creating new methodologies for evaluating educational quality, creating new designs for assessing student learning, promoting the sound use of assessment data, setting the national research agenda, and influencing practice.
The Center for the Transformation of Schools (CTS) conducts research and develops tools to help education systems place a commitment to equity at the center of their work.
Center X offers a unique setting where researchers and practitioners collaborate to design and conduct programs that prepare and support K-12 education professionals committed to social justice, instructional excellence, the integration of research and practice, and caring in low-income urban schools.
The Children's Understanding of Economic and Social Inequality (CUESI) Lab examines children’s experiences of social inequality, and its influence on their academic and social outcomes. The lab’s research examines the extent to which contextual factors such as poverty, immigration, and social policies, influence family dynamics and, in turn, children’s developmental outcomes.
The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles (CRP) research center is dedicated to creating a new generation of research in social sciences and law on the critical issues of civil rights and equal opportunity for racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. It has commissioned more than 400 studies, published 14 books, been cited in major Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action, and issued numerous reports from authors at universities and research centers across the country.
The Community Archives Lab at UCLA explores the ways that independent, identity-based memory organizations document, shape, and provide access to the histories of minoritized communities.
The Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) conducts research, evaluation, information, policy studies, and research training in postsecondary education. The HERI research program includes the outcomes of postsecondary education, leadership development, institutional transformation, faculty performance, federal and state policy, and educational equity; and houses the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), the largest ongoing national study of college students in the U.S.
The Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA) seeks to understand and challenge pervasive racial and social class inequalities in education. In addition to conducting research and policy analysis, IDEA supports educators, public officials, advocates, community activists, and young people as they design, conduct, and use research to make high-quality public schools and successful college participation routine occurrences in all communities. IDEA also studies how research combines with strategic communications and public engagement to promote widespread participation in civic life.
Momentum employs mixed-methods approaches to conduct cutting-edge research on efforts to diversity computing and technology fields.
The Paulo Freire Institute (PFI) seeks to gather scholars and critics of Freire’s pedagogy in permanent dialog to foster the advancement of new pedagogical theories and concrete interventions in the real world. PFI brings together research, teaching, and technology while concentrating on five major areas: studies of globalization and education, teacher education, a comparative perspective on Latin American education, the politics of education, and Paulo Freire’s political philosophy and critical pedagogy.
The UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families is focused on the needs of children and youth who are disconnected from traditional pathways to success, in particular foster youth.
The Sudikoff Family Institute for Education and New Media utilizes the popular press and other media to disseminate the work of SE&IS scholars to policymakers, educators, and the general public. Sudikoff Fellows are selected each year from SE&IS faculty members to enhance awareness of critical issues related to education and information studies, by contributing to a variety of media that reach a lay audience or serve the public interest in some manner.
The UCLA Capacity Building Center plays a unique role in cultivating impactful global partnerships. It synergizes the expertise of academics, practitioners, and policymakers in a shared mission of co-learning and equal partnerships. The center's aim is to strengthen both human and institutional capacities through reflective inquiry and strategic collaboration. Committed to advancing stakeholder participation and realizing the concept of local ownership as a tangible outcome, the center focuses on impactful changes that meaningfully improve lives. Its ultimate goal is to spark a wave of empowerment, connecting, and strengthening communities around the common goal of prioritizing local solutions to local challenges.
The UC/CSU California Collaborative for Neurodiversity and Learning believes that improving literacy is one of the great civil rights issues of this generation. Californians must work together to secure equal access to quality literacy instruction for all their children. Doing so is key not only to children’s literacy and well-being, but also to communities, democracy, and economy. The collaborative was established in June 2019 by Assembly Bill AB 1703. The collaborative represents a historic and critical investment in the state’s children with dyslexia and other literacy challenges.
