... The Priority Schools program will provide additional resources, funding and training to educators at 30 of Fairfax's roughly 200 public schools ... to eradicate the "achievement gap. In Fairfax, our white and Asian students as a group perform at a much higher level than our black and Hispanic students, and we want to close that gap," (Deputy School Superintendent Richard) Moniuszko said.
Fairfax County Public Schools spokesman Paul Regnier said all 30 schools would receive additional resources, and roughly 20 of the school's principals had earlier this summer attended an executiv...
A doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia has now added to the
world’s store of knowledge about marketing immediate income annuities by
publishing a highly detailed paper that explains who is or isn’t likely to
be receptive to one, and why. The findings that researcher Svetlana
Pashchenko (Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Economics) describes in her
paper, “Accounting for Non-Annuitization,” won’t shock you. ... But
Pashchenko broke some new ground in assessing seven obstacles to income
annuity purchases and assessing their relative weight for people w...
Four groups have filed a friend-of-the-court brief asking a judge to set
aside Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s demand for documents
related to research on global warming by a former University of Virginia
professor. The brief was filed Tuesday in Albemarle County Circuit Court by
the ACLU of Virginia, the American Association of University of Professors,
Union of Concerned Scientists and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the
Protection of Free Expression. ...
Four Virginia schools have retained their status as top public colleges in
annual rankings released by U.S. News & World Report. According to the list,
the University of Virginia remains second among the Top 50 public national
universities, the College of William and Mary is again sixth and Virginia
Tech moved up two spots to rank 27th. ...
Bill Cooper
Director of Supplier Diversity, just named to the Governor's Supplier Diversity Advisory Board
McDonnell tries to increase small, women and minority business procurement
Washington Post blog "Virginia Politics" / Aug. 16
Andrea Press
Chair of media studies, professor of sociology and author of "Women Watching Television"
Showtime: Television for Women, for Everyone?
The Atlantic (blog) / Aug. 16
Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
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37 UVA football fans won season tickets for the 2010 Cavalier home games Monday as the winners of Virginia head football coach Mike London's Fanatic Cavalier Club Essay. ... Jeff Wilcox of Appomattox won the grand prize of a trip for two to Los Angeles and two tickets to the UVA game at USC.
The University of Virginia women's soccer team is reaching out to some of it's youngest fans. On Sunday, the soccer players paired up with young girls from Charlottesville as part of their Girls Can Club.
By Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor and author of “Why Don’t Students Like School?”
... The writers of the Times article are either uninformed or disingenuous about the status of the value-added measures. ... Value added models work well when you’re trying to evaluate a school. They work much less well when you’re trying to evaluate an individual class.
A University of Virginia Health System surgical team has performed the Medical Center's 1,000th liver transplant, a milestone achieved by only a handful of hospitals across the nation.
Three months after the May 3 death of UVA lacrosse player Yeardley Love—allegedly at the hands of fellow student-athlete George Huguely—President Teresa Sullivan disclosed how the University plans to enforce the requirement that students self-report [any arrests].
... This fall, the University of Virginia is debuting an accredited, 11-week course known as Conservatism 101. It was created because students lobbied for it, said Bryan Bernys, a spokesman for CampusReform.org.
... Out-of-state students make up less than a third of UVA's total student body but they provide the majority of the university's tuition revenue. Like most colleges in the state, UVA relies on out-of-state students to pay the bills because of deep budget cuts from the General Assembly. "That balance is a little bit out of whack right now," said UVA budget chief Colette Sheehy.
Cincinnati Public Schools may become a national model for how a district can turn around struggling schools. ... While CPS still has room to improve, the quick success of the six schools prompted a national team of experts from the University of Virginia to say Monday that it may consider using CPS as a national model for how districts should run academic "turnaround" programs. "Cincinnati is hitting it out of the park right now," said LeAnn Buntrock, executive director of Partnership for Leaders in Education, a partnership between University's Darden School of Business and...
After UVA student Yeardley Love was killed last spring, officials learned that the man accused in her murder had earlier threatened to kill a policewoman in Lexington. That kind of information might have led the school to intervene--to require, for example, that George Huguely get counseling. Now schools around the state are talking about sharing such information, as WVTF's Sandy Hausman reports
The University of Virginia is getting a federal grant to help improve the teaching of American history in elementary, middle, and high school. The Charlottesville university says the three-year, $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education will help address a lack of resources in American history classes.