Henry County Schools Superintendent Jared Cotton said if he or his designee were to receive a request for Gideons Bibles’ New Testaments to be distributed in the county schools, he would discuss it with the school board and legal counsel before a decision is made. ... Douglas Laycock is the Robert E. Scott distinguished professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law and “one of the nation’s leading authorities on the law of remedies and also on the law of religious liberty,” according to the university’s website. “The general rule is that the s...
An innovative research replication initiative has generated results that have important implications for eyewitness memory. … Simons, fellow Special Associate Editor for Replication Reports Alex O. Holcombe (Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Sydney), and Perspectives editor Barbara A. Spellman (Professor of Law at the University of Virginia), hope that researchers will fully explore the RRR data, which are publicly available, and conduct their own analyses to identify possible moderators or even discover new effects.
Patrick Kinlaw saw it coming. Henrico’s superintendent predicted that the number of public schools lacking full accreditation would soar. … James Ryan, a former professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and current dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, devotes attention to the SOLs (and to No Child Left Behind). The pictures he paints are not always pretty. In education, equality seems a delusion.
In this two-part commentary, Robert F. Turner from the University of Virginia looks at some points of fact and law in the debate over executive power and American involvement in fighting terrorists in Iraq and Syria.
By W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies.“Children with married parents are better off — but marriage isn’t the reason why.” This recent headline from the Washington Post’s Emily Badger offers a crystalline summary of the new progressive wisdom about marriage: Yes, we now acknowledge that children do better in married families, but it isn’t marriage per se that matters for the kids. It’s the money, time and good parenting found at higher rates ...
By John Edwin Mason, who teaches African history and the history of photography at the University of Virginia, where he is an associate professor and associate chair of the Corcoran Department of History....Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument, which opens on Sept. 19 at the University of Virginia’s Fralin Museum of Art, examines the tension between Parks’ vision of what “Harlem Gang Leader” could have been and the photo essay as LIFE’s editors shaped it. In the exhibition’s catalog, Russell Lord, the show’s original curator at the New Orleans...
Kate Tamarkin and the newly remaned Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia will be teaming up with Free Bridge Quintet for "All That Jazz" in McIntire Amphitheater at UVa.
Ivy League wunderkind invents cutting-edge technology company in his dorm room. Recruits genius buddies to help him. Works around the clock out of a motel in Silicon Valley, developing his secret sauce. … The company, headquartered across from Metro Center in downtown Washington, has 30 clients, including Planned Parenthood, the University of Virginia Law School, the New Balance shoe and apparel company, the Natural Resources Defense Council and both the Republican and Democratic governors associations.
The 80 new American citizens who were sworn in Wednesday at the Frontier Culture Museum represent 30 countries and five different continents.While their collective heritage may span the globe, they are united in affection for their adopted homeland. Rob Merrera IV, a native of the Philippines, said he was appreciative of the opportunities America has brought him. "I can't tell you what this country has done for me,'' said Merrera, who has graduated from the University of Virginia.
The Obama administration has explained why it thinks it has the legal authority to bomb IS in Iraq and Syria although many doubt whether the justifications are sound. ... Ashley Deeks, a University of Virginia Law Professor, does not think that the collective self defense justification would be attractive to the Obama administration.
Steven Dunn, PharmD, who is a pharmacy clinical coordinator in cardiology at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville, said the ability to monitor plasma concentrations would be “extremely helpful” in treating patients with the risk factors to which Dr. Schnee referred.
Use of an online diabetes driving resource resulted in a 53 per cent reduction in driving 'mishaps' in a study of driving safety in people with type 1 diabetes. Outcomes of the study were presented by Professor Daniel Cox from the University of Virginia at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) conference in Vienna.
Dubbed the Razor by its creators at the University of Virginia, this 800g, 120cm wide flying wing is powered by a single prop and controlled with nothing more ...
This begs a sensitive question: Are schools set up to favor the way girls learn and trip up boys? Let’s start with kindergarten. Claire Cameron Ponitz from the Center for the Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning at the University of Virginia has dedicated her career to studying kindergarten readiness in kids. She’s found that little ones who are destined to do well in a typical 21st century kindergarten class are those who manifest good self-regulation. This is a term that is bandied about a great deal these days by teachers and psychologists. It mostly refers to disciplin...
As I’ve visited scores of factories in the U.S., China, and elsewhere, I have asked experts about trends shaping the creation or elimination of manufacturing jobs. Those I’ll mention here are James Manyika, a director of the McKinsey Global Institute and a leader of a major study there on the future of manufacturing; Liam Casey, whose PCH International developed a vast outsourcing network in China and is now fostering hardware start-ups in the U.S.; David Joyce, the head of GE Aviation, which has opened six new engine-building factories in the U.S. in the past seven years; and Jeff...
The marijuana industry’s lack of access to banks is also a problem for regulators and the police. “You don’t want just huge amounts of cash in these places,” Attorney General Eric Holder explained during an appearance at the University of Virginia in January. “They want to be able to use the banking system. There’s a public safety component to this. Substantial amounts of cash, just kind of lying around with no place for it to be appropriately deposited, is something that would worry me, just from a law enforcement perspective.”
Thirty-seven South American high school students are wrapping up a week in Charlottesville by giving back to the community. They're here as part of the state department's Youth Ambassadors Program.The students are here from Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, some of them in the United States for the first time.
... Sen. Richard Saslaw, D-Fairfax, expressed concern about a provision in the legislation that discourages colleges and universities from making up $90 million in spending cuts in the next two years by raising tuition. Without the possibility of raising tuition, Saslaw warned that universities might resort to more drastic measures, such as cutting classes, to make up the lost revenue.