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Patricia Gándara is a Professor Emerita at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies. She is a bilingual school psychologist and social scientist with extensive experience in education research. At the RAND Corporation, she directed education research and has served as a Commissioner for Post-secondary Education for the State of California. Gándara has been involved with the Linguistic Minority Research Institute and is currently co-directing the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA. Her academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from UCLA and a Master’s degree in Counseling/School Psychology from California State University, Los Angeles. Gándara has published numerous works addressing educational policies and practices concerning linguistic minority students and English learners, highlighting issues such as academic achievement gaps and segregation in education.
Department of Economics admits primarily for the PhD program.