Jane Margolis

Senior Researcher
IDEA

1041E Moore Hall

(310) 794 4481

margolis@gseis.ucla.edu

Education

MA, Psychology., Harvard University Extension, 1985

Ed. D., Education, Harvard University, 1990

Research Interests

Social inequality and education; the gender and race gap in computer science; high school to college equity issues: gender socialization; groupthink

Recent Publications

Margolis, J. et. al. (2008). Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing (MIT Press).

Goode, J., Estrella, E., and Margolis, J. (2004). "Lost in Translation: Gender and High School Computer Science." To be published in Joanne Cohoon and William Aspray, eds., Representation of Women in Information Technology, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 2006,

Goode, J. & Margolis, J. (2004). ÏWhat is computer science, anyway?: Deepening urban teachersÌ understandings of computer science and working towards an engaging pedagogy.Ó Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference, 2004 (1), 814-19. [Online]. Available Online

Margolis, J. and Holme, J. (2003). "The Computer Science Pipeline in Urban High Schools: Access to What? For Whom?" In IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Fall 2003.

Margolis, J. and Fisher, A. (2002). Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Recent Awards

2005 Computing Research Association Nico Habermann Award for Diversity in Computing, Available Online

2003 University Continuing Education Association Award for Literature for Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing.

Major Research Grants

"Into the Loop: An University K-12 Alliance to Increase and Enhance the Computer Science Learning of African-American, Latino/a, and Female Students in the Second Largest School District in the Country." Co-PIs: Joanna Goode, University of Oregon; Todd Ullah, Director of Secondary Science, Los Angeles Unified School District; Deborah Estrin, Center for Embedded Network Sensing, UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Planning Grant for Broadening the Participation in Computing, National Science Foundation. February 2006-January 2007.

Constructing the Computer Science Pipeline: How High School Structures and Norms Narrow Access to Computer Science for Underrepresented Minority Students. National Science Foundation. 2002-2005. Out of the Loop

Out of the Loop: Why are So Few Underrepresented Minority High School Students Learning Computer Science? National Science Foundation. 2001-2005