Rita Kohli, a professor in UC Riverside’s School of Education, has been named editor for two forthcoming volumes of a leading education research journal, where she will help curate the nation’s most rigorous scholarship on how racism shapes the U.S. education system.

A study by UC Riverside and USC education scholars found that Black and Latino teens are significantly more adept than their white peers at detecting online disinformation—particularly content related to race and ethnicity. These youth are quicker to identify false claims and racist propaganda and also more likely to verify posts with credible sources and respond with corrective, fact-based content, a study found.