The past ten years have seen a marked increase in farm animal advocacy initiatives such as the Animal Law Program at the University of Virginia School of Law.
“There’s ups and downs from year to year but we’re definitely seeing that trend data going up,” Graham said. “And this year, we’re working in a collaboration with the University of Virginia’s turnaround school project and that has really changed some of the practices of teachers throughout the district with more focused on planning and meeting on student achievement. So we’re actually very encouraged this year that we’re going to continue going up as far as the numbers are concerned.”
(Commentary) According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, Virginia taxpayers pay $305 million annually for the K-12 education of students who, as children, were brought illegally to America with their parents. The state has no choice: Supreme Court rulings declare that all children receive an education through 12th grade. But state law minimizes our ability to maximize the return on that required $300 million expense. Although they have lived here most of their lives, played by the rules, and earned grades good enough to be accepted to college, those students pay a penalty. As ...
Here’s the latest population estimates report – released today – from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. (The big news for our area: Fredericksburg is the fastest-growing locality since 2010, increasing by more than 15 percent.)
Vacuuming at least weekly and taking other steps can help reduce your exposure, says Thomas A. E. Platts-Mills, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine at the University of Virginia and indoor-allergy expert.
Better English teachers not only boost a student’s reading and writing performance in the short-term, but they also raise their students math and English achievement in future years. That’s according to a working paper, “Learning that Lasts: Unpacking Variation in Teachers’ Effects on Students’ Long-Term Knowledge,” by a team of Stanford University and University of Virginia researchers presented at the 7th Annual Calder Research Conference on January 23, 2014.
During the first week of classes, students from the University of Virginia's School of Architecture participated in the third annual Vortex. The final projects presented a variety of designs for a future Route 29, including alternative modes of traffic, dense urbanization, and drone transportation of goods.
College endowments made a comeback last year, gaining an average 11.7% in the 12 months that ended June 30 amid a rally in stocks. The gains helped colleges to recover from the average 0.3% loss incurred in fiscal 2012, and built on a nearly 20% average gain in the prior year, according to the Commonfund Institute and the National Association of College and University Business Officers which compiled data from 835 U.S. college and universities.
Don’t let the “sticker price” of a college education fool you. The best values in public and private higher education, according to the Princeton Review, are the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Williams College, respectively. After the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the rest of the top five public schools are, in order: the New College of Florida, the University of Virginia, North Carolina State University and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
With a shaved head, a goatee and an intense stare, new Browns coach Mike Pettine looks like a tough guy, and owner Jimmy Haslam and CEO Joe Banner describe him as a demanding leader who holds players accountable. There is plenty of well-documented evidence to support those claims.
(Commentary by Gerald F. Warburg, assistant dean at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) Are American troops and taxpayers ready for another war? This is a debate citizens must have now as a tense struggle plays out in Washington over sanctions policy against Iran.
More than 1,500 students who were enrolled in classes at Piedmont Virginia Community College two years ago went on to four-year colleges or universities. Of the 1,563 students who went on to four-year institutions, about two-thirds stayed in-state, including 251 who attended the University of Virginia.
(Comentary by W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia) In his State of the Union Address tonight, President Barack Obama hit a number of high notes — e.g., expanded apprenticeship programs, help for the long-term unemployed — in outlining his plan for renewing the American Dream. But Obama was strangely silent when it came to addressing a major obstacle to his agenda of expanding "opportunity for all": the divided state of our unions in America.
University of Virginia demographers say the state's population growth slowed last year, but it's still outpacing the nation. The conclusion is based on population estimates developed by demographers at U.Va.'s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. They said the state's population grew by less than 1 percent to 8.3 million between 2012 and 2013, the slowest growth since before the recession.
If Waynesboro Public Schools changes from a 6-point to a 10-point grading scale, it won’t impact a student’s chance at being accepted to college. That was the majority response from admissions directors at local universities, who for the most part said they look at other things, rather than just focusing on the letter grade. “It really plays no role,” said Greg Roberts, dean of admissions at the University of Virginia, talking about the grading scale. Roberts said that his university doesn’t compare students from differing schools against each other. Instead, his ...
(Letter to the Editor by Thomas Guterbock, director of the University of Virginia Center for Survey Research) A letter in the Jan. 27 Daily Progress questioned the accuracy of the recent Jefferson Area Community Survey that asked about the proposed U.S. 29 Western Bypass, and speculated that the telephone survey might have omitted people with cellphones (“Latest bypass survey likely misses information,” The Daily Progress online, Jan. 27). In fact, the Center for Survey Research has included cellphones in its samples since 2007. Cell phone respondents represent 55 percent of ...
So, why all the recent outrage from the states? That question is debatable. Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst with the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, says major legislation, such as the ACA, often creates tension and “strident disagreement.” Skelley said he believes it’s actually “healthy” because it “forces us to have conversations about these issues.”
University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato described Roxane Gilmore as the first to have a “completely independent identity” from her husband the governor. He also said she was a professional woman who didn’t care about the social scene.
The 2011 book “Slaves Waiting for Sale” by Maurie D. McInnis, an associate professor at the University of Virginia, includes other maps showing known slave traders in Shockoe in locations similar to that of the Kambourian map, but McInnis said some of the information was received from the Slave Trail Commission.