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News Articles & Media Coverage → Education

UC considers alternatives to standardized testing in admissions process

Education research professor Patricia Gandara said moving forward, it is possible to create a new test that allows students to prepare for college, but making this test would likely not be possible by the 2025 deadline.

Read More | February 1, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

KCRW LPPI Latino Vote Report Coverage

KCRW discusses the newest UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative Report on the Latino vote in 2020. “A new study by the UCLA LPPI looked at counties with the most Latino voters in more than a dozen states, it found their votes made a crucial difference in states like Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, and Wisconsin.”

Read More | February 1, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Diversity & Inclusion

Six UCLA arts projects receive Getty Foundation grants

LPPI Expert Chon Noriega received $120,000 in funding for a project titled “Science Fiction Against the Margins” as part of The UCLA Film & Television Archive, in collaboration with the cinema and media studies program.

Read More | February 1, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Criminal Justice

UCLA to establish archive on policing and mass incarceration in Los Angeles

“This new collaboration between Million Dollar Hoods and UCLA’s ethnic studies centers will preserve the documentary evidence of mass incarceration and its impact on people’s lives in Los Angeles while building a new digital bedrock for racial justice scholars and scholarship at UCLA,” said Kelly Lytle Hernández, director of the Bunche Center and a 2019 … Continued

Read More | February 1, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Criminal Justice

Million Dollar Hoods is already influencing policing in Los Angeles

Its research team is led by Kelly Lytle Hernández, a UCLA professor of history and urban planning, and includes UCLA students, staff and faculty. Every project also benefits from the involvement of community organizations; Youth Justice Coalition, Los Angeles Community Action Network, Dignity and Power Now!, and JusticeLA are among those that have contributed to … Continued

Read More | February 1, 2021

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