Larry J. Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said that while O’Malley is virtually unknown outside of Maryland, “he’s not badly positioned for a presidential candidacy.”
On Wednesday during National Signing Day, the Virginia football team is expected to receive national letters-of-intent from a defensive back considered to be a top 10 national recruit (Quin Blanding), a wide receiver ranked among the country’s top 100 prospects (Jamil Kamara) and a quarterback who could be the program’s future signal-caller (Corwin Cutler). Defensive tackle Andrew Brown, one of the nation’s top defensive linemen, has already enrolled at Virginia in order to participate in spring practice. It’s an unusually strong haul for a program that has just six win...
An NIT team a year ago, Virginia surged back from relative obscurity in large part because Malcolm Brogdon has, too.
(Letter to the editor from Robert C. Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education) Publicly funded preschool, currently offered through Head Start, state programs or child care subsidies, returns modest benefits for low-income children. And in the face of rising rates of child poverty, it needs shoring up to meet the demands of closing the achievement gap, which has been the promise of prekindergarten and the basis for many public investments.
(By Daniel T. Willingham, professor of psychology, and David W. Grissmer, research professor of education) When New York City’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, went to Albany earlier this week to talk about his program for universal preschool, the discussion reportedly focused on funding, not on whether or how preschool would actually help children. President Obama seemed equally confident when he introduced his plan for universal preschool last year, flatly stating, “We know this works.” But the state of research is actually much murkier. And unless policy makers begin to design pres...
“Marriage is an emotional institution, a child-rearing institution and an economic institution,” says W. Bradford Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project. “Unless we improve the fortunes of poor working people, particularly poor working men, we aren’t going to see marriage coming back.”
The gridlock in Congress has a lot to do with the buzz about a topic once considered political inside baseball, explained Bob Gibson, executive director of U.Va.’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership. “Increasingly it’s recognized that it’s responsible for some of the gridlock and hard partisan problems infecting Congress and seeping down to Richmond.”
"There's certainly room for adjustment, but not anything sweeping," said David A. Martin, a law professor at the University of Virginia and the principal deputy general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security in 2009 and 2010. "The justifications for DACA made clear that this is not a situation where the president can reduce overall enforcement of immigration laws. He can just redirect it in certain ways."
Recent research by Andrew Barr and Sarah E. Turner at the University of Virginia, published in an edition of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, noted that a quick upturn in college enrollment coincided with the financial crisis and economic downturn. “Even as demand for many goods and services tends to decline during a recession, demand for postsecondary education tends to increase,” the two wrote.
But Kyle Kondik, an expert on congressional elections at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said seeing an incumbent raise more money from outside the district and from PACs than his challenger “strikes me as pretty common.”
The USA Network launched a nationwide college bus tour at the University of Virginia Tuesday to combat hate and discrimination.
Microsoft has been working with the University of Virginia Centre for Wireless Health on earbuds that monitor the wearer's mood and pick a song based on their emotional state. The earbuds would play soothing music if it detected the person was angry or upset, and use the data to generate a health diary.
Despite having no business background, setting an arbitrary price point, and starting off with no name recognition whatsoever, Beijing-based startup Smart Air has sold over 2,500 cheap and frankly ugly do-it-yourself air purifier kits, almost as many replacement filters, and another 600 of the more powerful “Cannon” kits since sales began in mid-September. While the idea has existed for some time, no one really knew if this rudimentary design actually worked. Then founder Thomas Talhelm – a Ph.D. student in cross-cultural psychology – conducted some of the most thorough...
Amid the flickering glow of a campfire or beneath the confessional light of a courtroom, George T. Eidson Jr. held the power to captivate his audience and he never squandered a chance to use it. Whether he was rapping about the Florida before the "pseudo castles of rodent land" brought "thousands of polyester-clad pilgrims" – as he wrote in the 1990s – or riveting a jury with closing arguments, "Big G" was larger than life to most everyone who ever had a chance to hear him, friends and family said. Eidson Jr., an Orlando lawyer by training but a storyt...
Researchers have quantified what we have suspected for some time – kindergarten is the new first grade. “In less than a decade, we’ve seen the kindergarten experience essentially transformed,” said Daphna Bassok at University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. “Academic skill-building has really taken center stage in today’s kindergarten classrooms, in a way that just wasn’t the case” before the late 1990s. Today’s kindergartens now feature homework, worksheets and an emphasis on learning to read by the end of the year.
A group at the University of Virginia is giving a helping hand to the Salvation Army. The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority chapter at UVA is holding a shoe drive to benefit the Charlottesville community. The drive is a part of the group's celebration of 40 years of service and sisterhood at UVA.
Seven to nine percent of children in the state of Virginia have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – a condition that makes it hard to concentrate. Several for-profit companies have developed computer programs which claim to help kids focus, but a review by the University of Virginia’s school of education suggests none of them work.
In 2009, researchers from the University of Virginia and the University of Utah found that people who were more afraid of heights were less able to correctly judge the height of a particular building. Atop a two-story balcony, participants who self-identified as having a fear of heights overestimated the length of their imagined plummet by 31 percent.
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball, a website affiliated with the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, adjusted Louisiana's U.S. Senate race. It started as a “Toss Up,” was changed to “Likely Democratic” in October and is now officially back to “Toss Up.”