Sandra Graham

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Sandra Graham is a professor of education at University of California, Los Angeles, where she holds the Presidential Chair in Education and Diversity. She received the E. L. Thorndike Award in 2013. She served as the Vice Chair of the UCLA Academic Senate for 2016-2017, and continues to serve as the Chair for 2017-2018. Graham received a B.A. from Barnard College, an M.A. from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. from UCLA. Her major research interests include academic motivation and social development in children of color, particularly in school contexts that vary in racial and ethnic diversity. Her research has covered student ethnic diversity in K-12 education. She has said schools need to be more proactive in teaching tolerance. Graham has also given her opinion on L.A Unified's daily random weapons searches of high school students, stating that there is little research on the effects of these searches, but that schools can begin to look more like prisons with a lot of surveillance, which can lead to negative perceptions of the school climate. In the aftermath of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Graham appeared to endorse the position that exposure to violent video games increases the likelihood of aggression.