Ellen Daniels

Young people’s engagement in the world around them can have a profound influence on society and on the individual, said Curry School professor Nancy Deutsch, who is organizing a conference on youth activism this week.

U.Va. education professor Dewey Cornell is among the contributors to a new report that recommends ways to keep more kids in the classroom and out of the juvenile justice system.

Curry School assistant professor Michael Kofler and colleagues found that programs intended to boost working memory aren’t improving the “working” part.

There is a “huge societal benefit if we can cut the number of teachers that leave the field and improve the quality of the classroom experience for their students,” U.Va.’s Patrick Tolan said.

From developing water filtration systems in Guatemala to improving Charlottesville’s City Market, U.Va.’s Jefferson Public Citizens Program is meeting its academic and civic engagement objectives, according to a study.

U.Va. researchers will study the influence of non-parental adults in the lives of adolescents and how those bonds develop. Until now, little work has been done on how these relationships are formed and sustained.

Dewey Cornell, a professor in the Curry School of Education, has been named to the just launched research advisory board of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation.

Researchers at U.Va. find that prevalence of teasing and bullying predicts high school dropout rates.

U.Va.’s Youth-Nex Center is helping to fund four grants for early-career scholars working to improve academic achievement of military-connected youth.

Researchers at U.Va. have won a four-year, $500,000 federal grant to develop a standard model to assess school climate and safety in Virginia’s middle and high schools.