Why do reading scores on standardized tests flatten out in 12th grade? Here’s a post that explains it by E.D. Hirsch, founder and chairman of the Core Knowledge Foundation and professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia.
"It's an incredibly interesting time in American history, and we have this one-of-a-kind source of highly accurate information about it. It's kind of like a time machine," Ken Hughes, a researcher with the Presidential Recordings Center at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, told CBS News. "They provide a relatively raw, uncut view of the presidency we never had before and probably never will again."
The U.Va. School of Law ranks No. 5.
The United States may have received tacit approval from Libya, despite its public denials, but otherwise would need to offer another rationale such as that Libya was allowing an attack to be planned on its territory, said Robert F. Turner, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. "It would not surprise me at all if we had the private consent of the authorities and, if that's the case, it was a perfectly lawful act," Turner said. "It would also be a lawful act -- although controversial -- if he were still involved with terrorism," he said.
"Given Virginia's proximity to Washington, and the fact that many Virginia residents are being directly affected by the shutdown, I can't...it's very difficult to see it doing anything but helping McAuliffe," said Geoff Skelley, political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
(Column) What most surprised me was how many young people said they had no desire to emulate the Baby Boomers, whom they described as ruthlessly competitive. By contrast, young people today feel a greater pull toward camaraderie, they said. "Between being president of my honor society, volunteering at the local elementary school, job hunting, staying on top of my course load, being secretary of my sorority and trying to start a personal financial literacy seminar for women, running has become my detox time," wrote Natasha Mighell, a University of Virginia student. "It is MY time...
In its men’s college basketball season preview series, USA Today ranks U.Va. No. 24 in the country and projects the Cavaliers as a No. 6 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
(By James Loeffler, associate professor of history) In this brave new world of twenty-first century higher education, it is now axiomatic that professors must employ every possible digital device in order to engage their students. This has led to the common practice of allowing students to use their laptops in the classroom. And use them they do. All you have to do is stand at the back of a crowded campus lecture hall to see the screens crowded with multiple windows open to everything from news sites to Facebook to YouTube. If you’re lucky, you might even catch a glimpse of typed notes u...
The discovery was made possible by the work of thousands of scientists worldwide, including researchers at the University of Virginia. UVa professors helped to plan the experiments in the collider, and built components of its particle detectors.
Tickets go on sale Friday for this year’s Virginia Film Festival, which will unveil a “Saturday Night Live” funnyman’s dramatic debut, chat with an Alfred Hitchcock heroine, hear what a local author has to say about a new thriller based on his book and wrestle a few stereotypes to the ground along the way. A busy schedule of screenings, workshops, panel discussions, family activities and other events can be found at www.virginiafilmfestival.org. Jody Kielbasa, the festival’s director, announced festival details Tuesday at Glass Haus Kitchen.
University of Virginia researchers are getting a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help them assess the literacy skills of native Spanish-speaking children before kindergarten, according to a UVa news release. Researchers at the Curry School of Education want to develop a Spanish version of a test of early literacy skills – such as knowledge of the alphabet and letter sounds – that provide a foundation for learning how to read.
(Commentary) A college education isn't just about the money -- how much it costs and what you can earn post-graduation -- because the value of education can't be measured in dollars and cents. I hear that argument every year when we, here at PayScale, roll out our annual College Salary Report, featured in James Stewart's recent column in the New York Times titled "New Metric for Colleges: Graduates' Salaries," and again when we launch our annual College ROI Rankings in the spring. I agree that education helps to broaden perspectives in a way that's difficult to qu...
Keith Werman, affectionately known as "The Werm", had a bond like no other with Cavalier fans. Werman helped guide Virginia to a pair of College World Series appearances during his four years on grounds and after graduating in June of 2012, signed as an undrafted free agent with the Seattle Mariners, where he spent time with the organization's low- level clubs. His road has since led him back to Charlottesville, where former Cavalier player and current Covenant School baseball coach Jeff Burton was waiting with an offer.
(By Robert F. Turner, a law professor) The Oct. 4 death of former North Vietnamese general and Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap has led many commentators to describe him as “the general who beat the United States in the Vietnam War.” It is a popular perception, but it is false – at least in a military sense.
Broker Noble Black may have sold the highest-priced co-op in the history of New York City – a $54 million penthouse at 785 Fifth Ave. to music mogul David Geffen – but residential real estate was not exactly the first job he had in mind.
The fight by a conservative legal group and Del. Robert Marshall (R-Prince William) to obtain the e-mails written by leading climate change scientist Michael E. Mann while he was at the University of Virginia was shot down by a judge in Prince William County last year. But Marshall and the legal group appealed, and the Virginia Supreme Court has agreed to take the case and rule on whether the state’s Freedom of Information Act exempts unpublished academic research from being disclosed to the public, even after it’s been concluded or has been released elsewhere.
University of Virginia analyst Larry Sabato says the ongoing fight over the president’s health care law can be traced back to the fact that it passed the Congress only with Democratic votes. “When you have that kind of partisan split about a massive new program like Obamacare, you really are guaranteeing continued partisan division. That is not to justify what the Republicans are doing now. It is simply to say it is an explanation for why this has developed the way it has,” Sabato said.
Meredith Jung-En Woo, dean of the University of Virginia’s College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will step down in May 2014.