Part of that process is a tenure review that in New York City has grown increasingly rigorous in recent years. Research from Stanford and the University of Virginia, released Wednesday, found that the city’s tenure review process has recently been effective at easing out ineffective teachers before they received tenure.
Nine institutions including NASA and U.Va. are joining forces in a partnership dedicated to climate change research on the mid-Atlantic coast. The goal is to help local and regional leaders make coastal communities more resilient in the face of climate change by providing science and research to inform public policy. ... Its vision statement is far-reaching: "We will be the best understood coastline in the world and a destination for coastal science and public policy integration worldwide."
Nine institutions including NASA and U.Va. are joining forces in a partnership dedicated to climate change research on the mid-Atlantic coast. The goal is to help local and regional leaders make coastal communities more resilient in the face of climate change by providing science and research to inform public policy. ... Its vision statement is far-reaching: "We will be the best understood coastline in the world and a destination for coastal science and public policy integration worldwide."
Nine institutions including NASA and U.Va. are joining forces in a partnership dedicated to climate change research on the mid-Atlantic coast. The goal is to help local and regional leaders make coastal communities more resilient in the face of climate change by providing science and research to inform public policy. ... Its vision statement is far-reaching: "We will be the best understood coastline in the world and a destination for coastal science and public policy integration worldwide."
A new study by the University of Virginia suggests police should treat juveniles differently from adults during police investigations.
Once upon a time voters "valued the seniority and they wanted people who were committee chairs and who were leaders in Congress," Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics told CBS News."I don't think voters care about that stuff anymore, particularly not in the South, and I think to a certain extent Cantor's seniority and leadership position was almost damaging to him in that he was seen as sort of this symbol of things Republicans don't really like," Kondik added.
Robert Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, said that in California and elsewhere more is known about who is a good teacher in this age of annual testing of students and more robust teacher evaluations. He said he believes that's spurred the California lawsuit and other movement on the issue. He predicts more states will move toward longer probationary periods to grant tenure and more renewable contracts.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Democrats, who make up 43% of the district, played a role as well. "There was a major outreach to Democrats in that district," Sabato said. “You had Brat operatives going to Democratic Party committees, even on election eve, asking them to go to the polls to get rid of Eric Cantor.”