Jeannie Oakes was the founder and former director of UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education and Access, the former director of the University of California's All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity, as well as the founding director of Center X, which is UCLA's reform-focused program for the preparation of teachers and school administrators.
12 Facts About Jeannie Oakes
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Jeannie Oakes's research focused on schooling inequalities and on supporting and documenting activism for social justice.
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Jeannie Oakes began her career at RAND Corporation, where she authored Keeping Track, which is the seminal book on ability tracking.
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Jeannie Oakes moved from RAND to a tenured position at UCLA, bypassing the standard seven-year tenure process by virtue of her strong publication record and national stature.
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Jeannie Oakes founded and directed UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education and Access and Center X, each of which is discussed briefly below.
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Jeannie Oakes analyzed IDEA's efforts to link research, participatory inquiry, and community organizing in the book, Learning power: Organizing for education and justice [1].
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Jeannie Oakes founded and directed an interdisciplinary, multi-campus research center devoted to a more equitable distribution of educational resources and opportunities in California's diverse public schools and universities.
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In November 2008, Jeannie Oakes left UCLA to join the Ford Foundation as its director of education and scholarship.
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Jeannie Oakes has given a number of talks on the topic of community schools, including a keynote address at a 2017 community schools symposium organized by Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Jeannie Oakes was elected in 2004 to the National Academy of Education.
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Jeannie Oakes has received four major awards from the American Educational Research Association: the Early Career Award ; the award for the most Outstanding Research Article of 1997; the 2001 Outstanding Book Award for Becoming Good American Schools: The Struggle for Civic Virtue in Education Reform; and the best policy report of 2018, from the organization's Educational Policy and Politics division.
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Jeannie Oakes was appointed by President Obama in 2016 to the National Board For Education Sciences.