Tami Vuong, a 2005 UCLA alumna, stepped anxiously last fall into the South Bronx, New York elementary school that would be her Teach For America school for the next two years. Read more...

Jenna Korobow, a recent theater alumna, had been on stage many times, but nothing could have prepared her for her post-graduate debut: teaching the first grade. Read more...

Marjorie Clark is a white teacher in a Washington, D.C. high school where more than 95 percent of the students are black. She grew up in Albany, Ore., in a rural, white, middle-class community before attending UCLA. Read more...

Stacey Arthur arrives at Bonner Elementary School in Houston, Texas at 6:30 a.m. every weekday to make photocopies, fill out paperwork, and set up her classroom. Read more...

With an overwhelming chorus of “aye” votes, the California Assembly passed a bill on Wednesday that would require state public retirement systems to divest from companies with holdings in Sudan. Read more...

A record 37,000 students who were offered admission to a University of California campus this fall chose to enroll, and 4,852 of them will be attending UCLA. Read more...

On Tuesday morning, the state capitol lawn, littered with tents and college students from across California, became a refugee camp. The simulated camp was part of a demonstration aimed at pushing legislation for the next step in what students and policy makers have developed into a nationwide Sudanese divestment campaign. Read more...