The importance of reading to children from birth. Kindergarten readiness. The various approaches to teaching reading. All of those issues have been much in the news of late (and they’re never far from the minds of parents of young children), so my “Parent-Teacher Conference” email folder is full of questions about early literacy. Fortunately, Daniel T. Willingham’s new book, “Raising Kids Who Read,” was published this month, and it addresses every single one of them. Dr. Willingham is a professor of psychology at the University of Vi...
“In politics, increasingly, candidates and officials are being held responsible for the comments — past and present — of anyone they employ. Staffers can also be connected to all those candidates who have employed them in the past, and they can be criticized for out-of-the-mainstream positions taken by their past employers,” said Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. And with social media providing a nearly inescapable catalog of every position someone has ever taken, it’s hard for staff to run away from the statements of their...
When George Washington University Professor of Computer Science Rachelle Heller talks about women in academic STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), she makes a careful distinction: Although they face many issues, they’re not barriers, but challenges. “As you move up the academic ladder, in terms of institutional prestige and degree level, women’s representation tends to be lower,” says Joanne Cohoon, associate professor in the Science, Technology and Society department at the University of Virginia. “People are misled by the numbers. If you aggregate t...
(By Siva Vaidhyanathan, the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia) The next time you order one of those faux-Italian-named sweetened coffee drinks at a Starbucks store, you are likely to receive a cup with the hash-tagged words “Race Together” written on it, just above your misspelled name. If you ask the Starbucks employee what it’s about, she or he will tell you that it’s part of a new corporate initiative to inspire customers to discuss racial issues with employees and among themselves.
We’ve all heard the popular American rhyme about relationships: First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage. The National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia published a study called “Before ‘I Do’” and found that what couples do before they say ‘I do’ actually matters — and that premarital experiences from the past could end up haunting them long into marital bliss.
The governor of Virginia has ordered the Virginia State Police to investigate the bloody arrest of Martese Johnson, a black University of Virginia student, after photos and video of the arrest went viral across social media with #JusticeForMartese, which later sparked a protest on campus Wednesday evening.
The governor has called for a state police investigation into an alcohol agent’s arrest of a black University of Virginia student bloodied early Wednesday when his head slammed onto a sidewalk outside a pub.
The bloody arrest of third-year University of Virginia student Martese Johnson sparked rallies across Virginia Wednesday night. So many students showed up to an event on the University’s Charlottesville campus, organizers moved it from a ballroom inside a building to a nearby outdoor Amphitheater. Some estimated several thousand students, community members and school leaders met to discuss the incident.
Racial tensions flared at the University of Virginia after a black student sustained head injuries while white police officers arrested him outside of a popular Irish pub early Wednesday morning.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe is demanding an investigation after ABC special agents arrested a black University of Virginia student on Wednesday who can be seen on video with a bloody face as he screams accusations of racism.
About 1,000 students gathered at the University of Virginia campus Wednesday night to demand justice for a student who was injured during an arrest and appears in a photo with a bloody face.
Editor’s note: 163.com is one of the largest Chinese internet service providers. It published a story about U.Va.’s China office opening, reaching a potential audience of 8,217,500.
Elite law schools are not always a glide path to becoming a partner at a big law firm. A new study of partners’ academic pedigrees shows that a large number of graduates who reach the top rung at a law firm do not necessarily come from the top-ranked law schools. In Washington, the greatest number of partners found in the study came from Georgetown, Harvard, George Washington, University of Virginia and Catholic University. Similarly, in Chicago, the partners graduated from Northwestern, University of Chicago and University of Illinois.
The Virginia Festival of the Book turns its 21st page today for a five-day literary celebration featuring nearly 200 programs with nigh unto 400 participants in 77 venues throughout Charlottesville and Albemarle County.
(By Douglas Laycock, the Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and co-editor of Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts) We teach our children that America is the land of “liberty and justice for all.” “For all” means liberty for both sides in the culture wars—liberty to live their own lives by their own values. It means marriage equality and strong gay rights legislation, and it means strong religious exemptions for religious organizations and religious individuals.
In his new book, “Raising Kids Who Read,” University of Virginia psychology professor Daniel Willingham wants to be clear: There's a big difference between teaching kids to read and teaching them to love reading. And Willingham, a parent himself, doesn't champion reading for the obvious reasons not because research suggests that kids who read for pleasure do better in school and in life.
A University of Wyoming faculty member is part of a research team that created a method, using laser, to better decode complex neural circuits in the brain—a process that eventually may help unlock the mysteries of epilepsy, autism spectrum disorder and Alzheimer's in humans. Other contributing writers were from the University of Virginia; Bordeaux University in Bordeaux, France; and Zhejiang University School of Medicine in Hangzhou, China. Julius Zhu, associate professor of pharmacology at the University of Virginia, was the paper's lead writer.
A U.S. decision to return more than 60 smuggled precious artifacts back to Iraq has been welcomed by Iraqi officials, who shrugged off concerns over the items’ safety in the midst of apparent systematic destruction of relics of Iraq’s cultural heritage by militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). In returning the antiquities at a time of great cultural tumult for Iraq, Washington and Baghdad may be trying to change the narrative over the erosion of Iraq’s security and cultural heritage preservation following the 2003 invasion. “Aside from legal obligation...
Republican U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock of Illinois announced he will resign on March 31 following questions about spending by his office and campaign. “This is a seat that Romney won with 61 percent in 2012 — it’s not a plausible Democratic target,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of the Sabato’s Crystal Ball election handicapping website at the University of Virginia. Mitt Romney was the Republican presidential nominee in 2012.
You might not expect Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to have anything in common with Angela Davis, a counterculture activist and radical in the1960s, but a unique program at the University of Virginia finds qualities that many black leaders share. Long-time civil rights activist Julian Bond and fellow history professor Phyllis Leffler wondered about the nature of leadership and whether it was somehow different for people who came from the black community.