The school offers doctoral and master's degrees, including the MA, MEd, MLIS, EdD, and PhD, as well as professional certificates and credentials in education and information studies.

In 2020, it was changed to UCLA School of Education and Information Studies (Ed & IS) to reflect its provision of undergraduate courses as well as post-graduate.

Built in 1930 and designed by George W. Kelham, Moore Hall is among the most architecturally significant buildings at UCLA, an example of the school's original Romanesque Revival style.

[15] The GSEIS Building primarily houses the information studies faculty and computer and research labs.

Moore became director of the southern campus (later provost) and dean of the Teachers College, a position he held until 1939.

The two schools initially created a single alumni association and doctoral students took courses, when appropriate, at either campus.

UCLA is the only major research university in the country that combines these two areas of study into a single school or college.

Suárez-Orozco left UCLA to become Chancellor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and was replaced by Christina A. Christie as the new Wasserman Dean of Education & Information Studies in 2020.

[25] The Lab School classrooms provide an experiential education by serving as laboratories for exploring ideas about teaching, learning, and child development.

Edited by students in the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies, the journal brings together senior and emerging scholars, activists, and professionals whose work covers a broad range of theory and practice.

The school also houses the Freire Online Journal, which publishes "Freirean academic, in the field, experimental, and research-based works.

[30] Both of Center X's flagship professional programs, TEP and PLI, have a social justice emphasis as core to their work.

[31] Center X works to staff schools that are underserved, in communities of color, low-income, and with students that have academic needs.

A 2003 study found that "Center X graduates stay in teaching at higher rates than national averages.

As expected, retention decreases over time, yet even after 5 years, 70% of Center X graduates remain in the classroom compared to 61% of teachers nationally".

[32] For the 2010-2011 academic year, four TEP alumni were selected as United States Department of Education "Teaching Ambassador Fellows".

[33] Center X is committed to Vygotskyian sociocultural theory[30] and continues to do work around child development through language.