“Aides flagged these (situations) and were appalled,” said Larry J. Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “They tried to get the McDonnells to focus on them and in the end, they were overruled.”
Kris Worrell on Monday will become The Press of Atlantic City’s executive editor, the newsroom’s key leader who directs policy and coverage in print and digital media. Worrell, whose journalism career spans more than 25 years as a reporter and editor, says the news industry is evolving.
(Transcript) Richard Bonnie, director of U.Va.’s Institute for Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy, discussed John Hinckley’s attempt on the life of President Reagan.
Robert Sackheim figured out how to rescue a dying satellite. He dazzled engineering students into changing career trajectories. And show him a Civil War cannonball and he could tell you its arc, velocity and maybe even the battlefield where it landed.
Despite those weaknesses, University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato has Walker as the top potential 2016 GOP contender in his closely followed Crystal Ball website. "Walker has a lot to prove, but he looks good on paper," said Crystal Ball managing editor Kyle Kondik. "There are a lot of questions about how he will perform as a national candidate."
Principals and would-be principals who want to learn how to manage drastic school improvement can take courses from programs such as the Partnership for Leaders in Education, a collaboration of the University of Virginia’s School of Education and School of Business.
J. Stephen Huff of the University of Virginia School of Medicine helps answer the question, “Does shouting at an injured person have any medical benefit?”
Turning around low-performing schools has always been important, but the consequences of not improving are now more dramatic. Beginning in 2014-15, federal funding, like Race to the Top, will be closely tied to school performance on the Common Core. “Instead of slow and steady, turnaround now has to be quick and drastic,” says Daniel Duke, professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education.
The University of Virginia’s Darden School rose eight places to finish 27th in The Financial Times‘ 2014 global MBA ranking.
(By Mark Edmundson, professor of English) The Yale English department’s director of graduate studies and I did not like each other. That simple sentence contains conceptual errors, but also some truth. Surely I did not like him. He was tall, fiftyish, balding though handsome, and highly accomplished, with what I took to be an authoritarian aura. I was 26 and generally disliked anyone who had power over me.
The new study “highlights the critical effect that firearms are having on children’s health and safety,” said Patrick Tolan, a professor of education and psychiatry at the University of Virginia and director of the Youth-Nex, the U. Va. Center for Positive Youth Development. “It’s clear that this needs to be a part of the conversation about firearms. There’s been such a strong focus on whether somebody’s liberty might be fettered.”
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Thursday that lawful marijuana businesses should have access to the American banking system and that the government would soon offer rules to help them gain it. The rules are not expected to give banks a green light to accept deposits and provide other services, but would tell prosecutors not to prioritize cases involving legal marijuana businesses that use banks. “You don’t want just huge amounts of cash in these places. They want to be able to use the banking system,” Mr. Holder said at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia...
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Thursday that the United States was willing to discuss how the criminal case against Edward J. Snowden would be handled, but only if Mr. Snowden pleaded guilty first. Mr. Holder, speaking at a question-and-answer event at the University of Virginia, did not specify the guilty pleas the Justice Department would expect before it would open talks with Mr. Snowden’s lawyers.
Political forecaster Larry Sabato told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly the GOP has a good shot of taking the Senate in 2014 because Obama’s low approval ratings will hurt Democratic candidates.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said official positions in many areas can shift abruptly when party control of government changes. "In this polarized political era, a great gulf separates the two parties on all the hot-button social issues," he said.