The Encinitas (Calif.) Union School District is facing the threat of a lawsuit as it launches what is believed to be the country's most comprehensive yoga program for a public school system. Researchers at the University of Virginia and University of San Diego will study the program, including analyzing data on students' resting heart rates.
The President of the University of Virginia is encouraging all members of the UVA community to come together in a spirit of compassion and support following Friday's violent rampage at a Connecticut school.
But this handoff comes with a downside. Skills like critical thinking and analysis must develop in the context of facts: we need something to think and reason about, after all. And these facts can’t be Googled as we go; they need to be stored in the original hard drive, our long-term memory. Especially in the case of children, “factual knowledge must precede skill,” says Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia–meaning that the days of drilling the multiplication table and memorizing the names of the Presidents aren’t over quite y...
The Teen Center at the University of Virginia Health System is celebrating 21 years of service Monday. That's 21 years of providing youth health care to the community.
“What’s he going to do? He’s not going to get legislation,” said Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. “That’s obvious to anybody.”
The company a teen keeps can influence how much time they spend either in front of a screen or participating in healthy physical activity, finds a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The study yielded a few surprises that challenged some gender-related preconceived notions about teen leisure time, said lead study author John R. Sirard, Ph.D., assistant professor of the kinesiology program and Youth-NEX Research Center at the University of Virginia.
How can parents and schools keep kids safe, and how can they reassure them when tragedies occur? Judy Woodruff speaks with a panel of experts, including Stephen Brock of California State University, Dewey Cornell of University of Virginia and Mo Canady of the National Association of School Resource Officials.
“Everyone’s frustrated and I understand why people use this terrible tragedy for a good purpose, trying to get a discussion going on gun control,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “But the House probably wouldn’t even bring any of it up for a vote.”
One-hundred seventy-three days after Helen E. Dragas strode into the Rotunda alongside the president she sought to remove, the shadows of summer linger.
Children in the Westhaven community received a special Christmas treat Saturday afternoon. The kids received some early Christmas gifts at the neighborhood's community center. Westhaven partnered with students at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.
(Commentary by Marva Barnett, professor and director of the Teaching Resource Center at the University of Virginia, where she teaches in the French Department.) “Les Misérables,” that most popular of musicals, comes at last to movie theaters — and on Christmas Day! What could be better than to have this story of love, grace and redemption arrive during the season of good will and generosity?
Largely unnoticed and unaddressed, "middle America" is abandoning marriage, with harsh ramifications for children, stability and the future, according to a just-released national report. "The President's Marriage Agenda for the Forgotten Sixty Percent," the latest of the annual "The State of Our Unions" reports by the Center for Marriage and Families, is part of the Institute for American Values. It produced the report, which came out Sunday, with The National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
(Editorial) It seems as if the bad news for the University of Virginia just keeps dripping out, one institutional migraine after another, following last summer’s attempted coup by the school’s rector against President Teresa Sullivan.
(Commentary by Elizabeth Marquardt of the Institute for American Values and W. Bradford Wilcox of the University of Virginia, authors of “The President’s Marriage Agenda for the Forgotten Sixty Percent.”) During his presidency, Obama has said why fathers matter. This year he told Americans that gay marriage matters. Now, as scholars who are convinced that stable families make a world of difference for children, we would like to challenge him: Can he talk about—and can he lead America—on the vital question of how marriage matters for all children?
Assure them they're safe at school. That's something University of Virginia professor of education Dewey Cornell says will be difficult, but vital. He said, "It's very hard for us as adults to recognize that schools are safe, and would be even harder for children to take that objective perspective."
Q&A with Toby Lester, a journalist, an editor, and an independent scholar (and a 1987 graduate of the University), and the author of "DaVinci's Ghost."
A leading expert in the First Amendment, which addresses freedom of speech, suggested a successful prosecution of slipshod news organizations or even deliberate hoaxers would be extremely unlikely. “If it is just about false information that has no effect on law enforcement, no effect on prosecution, no effect on police practices – merely false information, if not done for fraudulent purposes, is almost certainly protected by the First Amendment,” said Frederick Schauer, a professor of law at the University of Virginia.
The middle class needs not just tax breaks and jobs but also marriage. This is the finding of a new University of Virginia and Institute for American Values report, “The State of Our Unions,” which tracks the decline of marriage among the nearly 60 percent of Americans who have high school but not college educations.
Often in a haze of illness, the schoolhouse gunmen are usually aware of the taboo they are breaking by targeting children, said Dewey G. Cornell, a clinical psychologist at the University of Virginia and director of the Virginia Youth Violence Project. “They know it’s a tremendous statement that shocks people,” Dr. Cornell said, “and that is a reflection of their tremendous pain and their drive to communicate that pain.”
Forget "Tiger Moms" and "Bringing up Bébé." Forget even the attachment parenting versus cry-it-out debate. To really understand childrearing in the United States, researchers with the University of Virginia say, take a look at the country’s “Four Family Cultures.”