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.”
University of Virginia scientists Jordan Axt, Charles Ebersole and Brian Nosek wondered not only if social hierarchies persist in the American social memory, but if the same unacknowledged hierarchies are widely endorsed by members of different social groups. ... these hierarchies appear to be unvarying, regardless of who is doing the evaluating. With race, for example, all groups value their own racial group the most, but then rank the other groups in identical order: White, Asian, Black, Hispanic. The results taken together, and reported in a forthcoming issue of the journal Psychologi...
By Amber Thomas, the Association for Manufacturing TechnologyTake the time now to get up to speed on the issues that matter. Start with the recent manufacturing reports released by the National Economic Council (“Making in America: U.S. Manufacturing Entrepreneurship and Innovation”), the Commerce Department (“Manufacturing Since the Great Recession”), and the University of Virginia’s Millstein Commission on Manufacturing (“Building a Nation of Makers”). They are consistent in their findings about the impact and importance of a vibrant U.S. manufacturi...
Most research projects on the Hudson River look at a snapshot of time: a spring, a summer, a year or two. But the Hudson, like other rivers, is constantly changing.To better understand its long-term variability, a team of scientists from the Hudson Valley and the University of Virginia sat down and reviewed decades of studies on the river to come up with a bigger picture. Their findings were published in June in the journal BioScience.
By Erika Herz, associate director of sustainability programs for the Darden School, and Marian Moore, a marketing professor at Darden.... thanks to efforts with suppliers like GE that resulted in better performance and lower prices, as well as advertising campaigns, Wal-Mart hit its goal of selling 100 million bulbs by 2007. Yet by 2009, U.S. sales had slipped by 25 percent — a troubling shift. Wal-Mart was asked by EnergyStar to promote sales of the bulbs.
By Andrea Press and Francesca Tripodi, authors of “Feminism in a Postfeminist World: Women Discuss Who’s Hot—and Why We Care—on the Collegiate ‘Anonymous Confession Board,’” which was published in the Routledge Companion to Media and Gender, and co-wrote a chapter in Press’s forthcoming book “Feminism LOL: Media Culture and “Feminism on the Ground” in a Postfeminist Age.”...We have spent the last several years researching and studying the acute online sexism expressed via a campus anonymous confession board. This type of a...
On the 50th anniversary of the historic signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, scholar and historian Doug Blackmon remembers the back story and the legacy of this landmark legislation that changed the course of American history. Doug also shares (beginning at 10:05) the latest new on his current research project— titled “The Harvest”— which explores the legacy of the Civil Rights Act among an entire generation in Mississippi. This project will eventually be both a book and a documentary film.
In the first place, the number of companies who will demand or qualify for the exemption is small. University of Virginia constitutional scholar Douglas Laycock told me that religious liberty claims by businesses like those here "almost never arise. These were cases where the owners unanimously agree on the religious commitments of the business and have demonstrated that over time." That doesn't happen very often, and regulations that genuinely conflict with those commitments are rare.
In her dissent, Ginsburg wondered if Jehovah's Witnesses, who oppose blood transfusions on religious grounds, might similarly challenge the Affordable Care Act. So far, "no business has made such a claim about any other medical treatment," said Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia.
The Hobby Lobby opinion puts religious-liberty jurisprudence in a very good place. In fact, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty along with Professor Douglas Laycock of UVA Law School will be back at the U.S. Supreme Court again in the fall in a non-mandate case involving another federal statute, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). In that case, Holt v. Hobbs, Arkansas prison officials have denied a Muslim prisoner’s request to grow a religiously-motivated half-inch beard...
Doug discusses today’s breaking news that the U.S. Supreme Court has sided with Hobby Lobby in a case involving corporate personhood and religious liberty. He also discusses Holt v Hobbs, which he will argue before the Supreme Court this fall.
"A lot of the super PACs waste a lot of money and don't do the proper research about where they can have the most impact," said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. "It's a scattershot expenditure of funds. Crossroads is the best example from the last cycle, but they're hardly alone." Sabato, who literally wrote the book on campaign finance, argues that short of a constitutional amendment ("It's scheduled for the 12th of never!"), fixing money in politics would require a mix of small but highly controversial changes: More public...
“The Libertarians are building their party and getting attention for their ideas,” said Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “They know the odds and the numbers, I’m sure. In politics, winning isn’t the only thing that counts. You want to get your proposals injected into the marketplace of ideas to attract more supporters.”
Micah discusses today’s breaking news that the U.S. Supreme Court has sided with Hobby Lobby in a case involving corporate personhood and religious liberty.
Political experts say the results aren’t surprising, further indicating deep-rooted political polarization in the country. University of Virginia political analyst Geoffrey Skelley says the results also prove the country’s collective memory is far more forgiving to presidents long past.
Charlottesville, Richmond and Roanoke are following Blacksburg’s lead in launching campaigns to promote solar power on residential rooftops. By purchasing panels in bulk, organizers can offer substantial discounts. It’s a strategy that one University of Virginia graduate (Keya Chaterjee) is using to persuade the nation that renewable is do-able.
... The foray into remote consults follows Verizon’s other activities in healthcare connectivity and data exchange. At the HIMSS conference in 2013, the company showcased its secure messaging system, which allows clinicians to exchange sensitive data through a web browser over a cloud-based, HIPAA-compliant network. Later that year, it collaborated with the Swinfen Trust and the University of Virginia Health System to bring telehealth infrastructure to developing nations, allowing providers to send images and medical records from remote locations to experts at UVA for a secon...
If you ever thought about becoming a doctor or just want to know more about health, this is your chance. The University of Virginia is offering a free program called Mini-Med School. The program has all of the positives of medical school without the negatives. ... This is the 21st year UVA has offered Mini-Med School and it attracts a lot of people.