UC LMRI Events

Updated: August 25, 2008Archive of UC LMRI News and Events

July 30, 2008: Federal Court Ruling Prods Texas on ELLs
Education Week article cites UC LMRI Director
"Russell W. Rumberger, the director of the Linguistic Minority Research Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said that his examination of performance of ELLs on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, backs the judge’s conclusion that such students are doing much better at the elementary school level than at the secondary level in Texas."

October 19, 2007: California Education Policy Convening
This unprecedented event brought together more than 300 top-level education leaders and stakeholders to focus on California Education policy and ideas for reform. More than 50 organizations and individuals submitted policy briefs for the Convening, including UC LMRI's Russell Rumberger and Patricia Gándara.

March 16, 2007: Report Roundup in Vol. 26, Issue 28, Page 12 of Education Week
"Language and Reading" profiles the cover story by Russ Rumberger in UC LMRI's current newsletter (Vol. 16, No. 2)

March 15, 2007: New Study by UC LMRI Researchers Examines Needs of English Learners in California Schools
California shortchanges English learner students at its own peril, study says
A new study released today reports that English learners in California schools cannot catch up with their English-speaking peers unless the state rethinks the way resources are allocated for these students. English language learners - whose first language is not English and who lack or have only beginning proficiency in English - represent one-fourth of all public school students in the state.

March 12, 2007: Elementary School Progress Lags for Some Linguistic Minority Students
A new study, featured in the UC Linguistic Minority Research Institute's current newsletter, finds that a growing achievement gap separates California's linguistic minority students - those who come from households in which a language other than English is spoken regularly - from native speakers.

March 5, 2007: "Some Linguistic Minority Students Lag in Elementary School" in Vol. 17, No. 12, edition of UC Santa Barbara's "93106" UC LMRI Director Russ Rumberger discusses the cover story of the most recent issue of the UC LMRI Newsletter.

March 1, 2007: "Lost in Translation: The Challenge of Bilingual Education" produced by Mainstream Media Project's World of Possibilities, an award-winning one hour weekly radio program. This program features UC LMRI Director Russ Rumberger.

"UCLA captures academic plum: Luring Harvard's respected Civil Rights Project west is a coup for the university" from the LA Times, 11/29/06: Gary Orfield, the project's current director and its co-founder, will be joined as co-director by Patricia Gandara, a UC Davis education professor since 1990 and frequent collaborator in Civil Rights Project research. (posted 12/5/06)

Commentary: Less-costly alternatives to Prop. 82 could yield better results by Russell W. Rumberger in the San Jose Mercury News (posted 6/28/06)

A selection of news articles regarding the UC LMRI Technical Report "Preschool Participation and the Cognitive and Social Development of Language Minority Students" by Russell Rumberger and Loan Tran

November 15, 2005: California State Assembly member Loni Hancock chaired a hearing of the Select Committee on Bridging the Achievement Gap to explore what experts are calling California's "high school dropout rate crisis." Featured panelists included Dr. Russell Rumberger, UC LMRI and Paul Warren, Principle Analyst, Office of the Legislative Analyst
October 17, 2005: UC LMRI Associate Director Patricia Gandara on KPCC Talk of the City
April 26, 2005: UC LMRI Director Russell Rumberger on PBS' Online NewsHour: Breaking the Pattern: "Hispanic Youths More Likely to Drop Out of High School, Studies Show" with Spencer Michels
Fall 2004: UC LMRI Associate Director Patricia Gandara on three-part Public Television series, "The College Track: America's Sorting Machine"

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