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Jane Margolis is a social scientist and faculty member at the
University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the Californ ...
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies who studies why so few African American, Latino, and female students are learning computer science.


Education

Jane earned a A.L.M in Psychology from
Harvard Extension School Harvard Extension School (HES) is the extension school of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school is one among 12 schools that grant degrees and falls under the Division of Continuing Education in the Harvard Faculty of A ...
in 1985 and an Ed.D. from
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...
in 1990.


Recognitions

She was recognized by President
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on February 1, 2016, as one of nine Computer Science Champions of Change for her work to democratize access to computer science education.


Books

*''Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing'' (with Allan Fisher, MIT Press, 2001) *''Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing'' (with Rachel Estrella, Joanna Goode, Jennifer Jellison Holme and Kim Nao, MIT Press, 2008)Reviews of ''Stuck in the Shallow End'': * *


References

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