Among analysts, the race for the Connecticut's governor's seat is considered one to watch, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. And where a seat is in play, money often follows.
Health care law Professor Margaret Foster Riley at the University of Virginia agrees. And she says Johnson's assertion that he is being forced to participate in something illegal may not hold up. "Just because he thinks something is illegal, that doesn't give you standing; that doesn't give you an injury in fact," she said. "And the substance of this case is frankly somewhat bizarre."
“Most of the administrative appointments of legislators are a corollary of the old Jacksonian principle of ‘to the victors go the spoils,’ ” said Larry J. Sabato, professor and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
An economy-centered campaign message might help Democrats affect “a few critical Senate race outcomes,” wrote Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, in Politico this spring.
That's bad news for Udall, said one political expert, because presidential approval is the "one of the single most important factors" in determining whether members of the president's party will win during a mid-term election year. "It matters enormously," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
“While it’s conceivable that a minimum wage referendum could help Democratic turnout slightly in Illinois, it’s unlikely that it will drastically alter the make up of the electorate” said Geoffrey Skelley, an associate editor for Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
“Polling has shown that tea party supporters are some of the most energized voters, meaning they are very likely to show up and vote in November, as well as volunteer for campaigns and donate money,” Geoff Skelley, of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said in an email. “So they’ll certainly play a big role in races across the country and in Virginia.”
"It's another chapter, like turning a page," said Denis Manga Tebit, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia who emigrated from Cameroon. "It's a freer society with more opportunities, and that's what [we're] looking for."
Maloney, who described Kroger as “one of the best supermarket organizations in the country,” said any challenger looking to unseat the company as the region’s leading grocer will face a formidable challenge, a sentiment echoed by Elliott Weiss, a professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia.“I see no reason for the Kroger/Harris Teeter dominance to not continue,” Weiss said in an email.
When the American Academy of Pediatrics called for reading to children from infancy, some mistakenly hear “from birth,” said Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and the author of the forthcoming book "Raising Kids Who Read."
“This is something that is going to happen gradually,” Daniel Willingham, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, told the New Yorker. “You hit several thousand forehands, after a while you may still be attending to it. But not very much. In the end, you don’t really notice what your hand is doing at all.” Choking, psychologists find, is what happens when your brain shuts off the faucet for you.
But University of Virginia psychology professor Daniel Willingham isn’t so sure that’s news. Commenting on the “slow-reading movement,” he reminds readers at realcleareducation.com that he and his college classmates had trouble grasping Faulkner and Joyce in the ’80s. Everything he has read on this topic is “short on data and long on individuals’ impressions.”
Blackstone’s purchase of Hilton is a defining moment of the private equity era. The story of the purchase and the years that followed is a Wall Street opera involving high stakes finance, layoffs, accusations of corporate spying and the resurrection of an iconic American brand. Blackstone’s $26 billion purchase on Fourth of July eve came at the very peak of what is generally considered the heyday of private equity. The economy had not yet gone over the cliff. The stock market was booming. Cash was plentiful. Takeover prices were soaring. The Hilton sale would eventually be se...
And the college tour isn’t the only aspect of recruitment being enhanced by technology. ... The University of Virginia is experimenting with sending prospective students text messages (the new generation’s medium of choice) with reminders of approaching deadlines. University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan claims that faculty research suggests that, so far, it works. “Text messages meet students where they are and are more cost effective than more traditional methods of outreach, like mailing letters,” says Sullivan. The university hasn’t fully launche...
A letter petitioning state leaders to expand the state's employee health benefits coverage to gay couples has drawn support from high-profile names at the University of Virginia, including President Teresa Sullivan, former President John T. Casteen III, and constitutional law professors A.E. Dick Howard and Douglas Laycock, the Charlottesville Daily Progress has reported. Sullivan has previously noted that the state's existing policy has hurt the university's ability to recruit and retain faculty. Which means that one of the nation's greatest public universities, along wi...
Just days ago — at the beginning of a Mandarin Chinese language immersion program at the University of Virginia — Jillian Tidlow didn’t speak a word of Chinese. Thursday afternoon, she and about 20 other high school students from around Virginia performed skits and sang pop songs in Mandarin in front of friends and family.
Several organizations and institutions in addition to Montpelier, partnered to provide the six-week study program including the College of William & Mary, University of Virginia, Ashlawn-Highland and Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.
By E. D. Hirsch, Jr., the founder of the Core Knowledge Foundation and professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia.The New York City Department of Education recently did a three-year study comparing 20 schools. Ten used the Core Knowledge approach. Ten used balanced literacy. After analysis, the Core Knowledge results were deemed to be far better, to a high level of statistical significance. ...
What are your favorite books about the founding fathers? Were there any that were especially useful in writing your new biography of James Madison?...For Madison’s life, Irving Brant’s six-volume biography and Ralph Ketcham’s “James Madison” are enormously valuable, but nothing beats the writings of Madison himself, which are remarkably accessible. Thanks to J. C. A. Stagg and his team at the University of Virginia, Madison’s edited papers are available online. It is truly an amazing thing to be able to click a few keys and find out what Ma...
According to University of Virginia researchers who published their findings in the journal Child Development, “Early adolescent pseudomature behavior predicted long-term difficulties in close relationships, as well as significant problems with alcohol and substance use, and elevated levels of criminal behavior.”