By contrast, from 2013 to 2017, there was no difference in school bullying rates between Republican- and Democrat-leaning counties in the commonwealth's biannual school climate survey, according to study authors Francis Huang, an associate education professor in education at the University of Missouri, and Dewey Cornell, an education professor and the director of the Virginia Youth Violence Project at the University of Virginia. In fact, bullying overall was on the decline across Virginia from 2013 to 2015, as it has been in the nation as a whole, they found.
The big question in the case was whether the House had standing, or the right to bring this case against the president. Rosemary Collyer, a D.C. district court judge, said yes. Although the substance of the Obamacare case was eventually resolved through a settlement agreement, and Collyer’s decision wouldn’t be binding on future judges, it showed that legislators have a chance of success in suing the president—or, at least, in using a lawsuit to slow down the president. This is the most important question, said Saikrishna Prakash, a law professor at the University of Virginia: “If they sued, w...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that “According to an International Coach Federation report, the 2016 ICF Global Coaching Study, there were about 17,500 coach practitioners in North America in 2015.” Connie Whittaker Dunlap, executive director for professional advancement at UVA’s Darden School of Business, who regularly contributes to Forbes through the Forbes Coaches Council, writes “Western Europe was estimated to have the highest number of coaches, with 18,800 coaches in 2016.” Dunlap has written of the failure of the coaching industry to “adequately capture the complexities of coac...
UVA’s Gordie Center usually works on substance abuse problems, hazing and other forms of bullying among college students and at high schools. The recent workshop at Albemarle County’s Henley Middle School was directed at a different audience.
Thomas Jefferson left instructions that his tombstone should read as follows: “Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom and Father of the University of Virginia.” Jefferson was justifiably proud of his many accomplishments, but what’s not on there is “third president of the United States of America.”
Kent Germany, a fellow at UVA’s Miller Center, notes that Johnson wore his Silver Star pin on his suit for much of his political career. “In his presidential portrait and many of the images of him as president,” Germany says, “that award for gallantry rests high up on his left lapel, connecting him to that moment in 1942 despite any possible reservations about his receiving it.”
There’s little evidence that “family policy” has more than a marginal impact on total lifetime fertility. UVA sociologist Brad Wilcox, who oversees the National Marriage Project, notes that even “krybbe”-to-“grav” Nordic welfare states have failed to keep birthrates above replacement.
The University of Virginia Cavaliers and Virginia Tech Hokies are facing off on Tuesday night in men’s basketball with much more on the line than usual. For the first time ever, both teams are ranked in the top 10 in the nation - Virginia is No. 4 in the most recent Associated Press poll while Virginia Tech is No. 9. In the USA TODAY Sports coaches poll, UVA is No. 1 while Tech is No. 7.
Attorney general hopeful William Barr is set Tuesday to appear for confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee — again. Barr is still more likely than not to be confirmed, said Russell Riley, a presidential scholar at UVA’s Miller Center.
The McLean, Virginia-based federally funded research and development center recently reopened the SE Fellowship program, a yearlong professional development curriculum designed to offer federal employees an education on how to design and manage complex technology systems. The MITRE program, partnered with the University of Virginia’s Department of Engineering Systems and Environment and the Darden Graduate School of Business, accepts six to 12 fellows to examine the applications of systems thinking, engineering systems for complex multi-stakeholder use, model-oriented and evidence-based system...
(Commentary by Catherine Bradshaw, professor and the senior associate dean for research and faculty development at the Curry School of Education and Human Development) Five years ago, the Obama administration made the critical connection between school safety and equity with its “Dear Colleague” guiding principles underscoring racial disparities in school discipline and outlining how schools can become safer by bridging those gaps. Last month, the Federal School Safety Commission released a recommendation to revoke this guidance.
Local entrepreneurs and startups have until Jan. 24 to submit applications for the University of Virginia’s summer incubator program. The i.Lab at UVA is open to for-profit and nonprofit startups in the Charlottesville-Albemarle community, regardless of any UVA affiliation.
JoAnn Pinkerton, executive director of The North American Menopause Society and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Virginia, said evidence continues to emerge that therapies other than pills, such as through-the-skin (transdermal) HRT, offers less risk of blood clots.
With about three-dozen Democrats either in the race or saying they are considering it, 2020’s Democratic primary field could rival the GOP’s sprawling 17-candidate field in 2016. It could break the Democratic record set in 1976, when 13 candidates ran serious bids for the nomination, according to Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, who sees some parallels to today’s situation.
(Commentary by Cale Jaffe, assistant professor of law and director of UVA’s Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic) The Supreme Court will decide in 2019 whether a Virginia law that bans uranium mining is preempted by the Atomic Energy Act, the U.S. law governing the processing and enrichment of nuclear material. The case, Virginia Uranium, Inc. v. Warren, will require the court to interpret laws governing nuclear fuel production. But its most significant, long-term impact might be the glimpse it provides into the court’s view of the proper balance between federal regulatory power and th...
Both Grayson and Jennifer Lawless, a UVA professor of politics, see Harris as a compelling and charismatic candidate who should be well-positioned in the emerging Democratic field. But both analysts emphasized that with that field expected to be huge and diverse -- as Democrats see a chance to run against an embattled president many of them detest -- prediction is difficult. "The question is, is she -- and is her message -- going to break through when you have a group of 10 or 12 or 15 people running for office," Lawless said.
Teaching self-compassion to children who have a history of trauma is particularly important — and particularly challenging. Dr. Patricia Jennings, associate professor at the University of Virginia and author of the new book, “The Trauma-Sensitive Classroom,” said that these children “often feel very bad about themselves, and their ability to feel compassion for themselves may be impaired. They don’t even know how to accept compassion from other people yet.” In these situations, caring teachers can literally rewire some of the neural pathways associated with attachment.
Back in the fall, I reported on a white paper from the nonprofit College Success that argued that student engagement matters more than selectivity in determining both success and happiness. That brings us to the recent Atlantic article, which references both the most thorough and famous study done on the relationship between where you go to college and success and a new National Bureau of Economic Research paper co-authored by three economists, including UVA’s Amalia Miller.
A treatment studied at the University of Virginia Health System is replacing scalpels with sound waves in hopes of helping patients with Parkinson’s disease.
The Emergency Communications Center for Charlottesville, Albemarle County and the University of Virginia began a texting program in December for people who cannot make a 911 phone call for help.