Cincinnati Public Schools may become a national model for how a district can turn around struggling schools. ... While CPS still has room to improve, the quick success of the six schools prompted a national team of experts from the University of Virginia to say Monday that it may consider using CPS as a national model for how districts should run academic "turnaround" programs. "Cincinnati is hitting it out of the park right now," said LeAnn Buntrock, executive director of Partnership for Leaders in Education, a partnership between University's Darden School of Business and...
After UVA student Yeardley Love was killed last spring, officials learned that the man accused in her murder had earlier threatened to kill a policewoman in Lexington. That kind of information might have led the school to intervene--to require, for example, that George Huguely get counseling. Now schools around the state are talking about sharing such information, as WVTF's Sandy Hausman reports
The University of Virginia is getting a federal grant to help improve the teaching of American history in elementary, middle, and high school. The Charlottesville university says the three-year, $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education will help address a lack of resources in American history classes.
Peter Bogdanovich has taken on many roles as a director, actor, producer, film historian and writer over the years. His latest role will be as a Virginia Film Festival Fellow. A new season for the 23rd Virginia Film Festival got rolling Monday with the unveiling of the festival’s new logo at the Paramount Theater and the announcement that Bogdanovich will participate.
It took the death of lacrosse player Yeardley Love to galvanize the University of Virginia to address the critical problem of relationship violence on campus. Now the university is taking steps to avoid a repeat of the tragedy. It deserves recognition and praise for reacting quickly and substantively. The university strengthened its security policy this month to require students to disclose any arrests or convictions since enrolling. The change is crucial. …
Four Virginia schools retain their status as top public colleges in annual rankings released today by U.S. News & World Report. The University of Virginia remains second and the College of William and Mary is again sixth among the Top 50 public national universities. Virginia Tech moves up two spots to rank 27th on that list. ... On the best national university list, including private schools, U.Va. is No. 25, W&M is No. 31 and Tech is No. 69.
Dr. Mark F. Abel
Lillian T. Pratt distinguished professor of orthopedic surgery and chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics
Overcoming adversity
Culpeper Star Exponent / August 15, 2010
Daniel L. Duke
Education professor who profiled Tom DeBolt's reign in Manassas Park in the book "The Little School System That Could: Transforming a City School District"
Manassas Park Superintendent Tom DeBolt retiring after 15 years
Washington Post / Aug. 15
Roger Felder
Director of U.Va.'s Medical Automation Research Center and a founder of WellAware Systems
Can better tools overcome the medi...
A horde of Hoos descended on Scott Stadium on Sunday afternoon for an up-close look at the team on which they’ll be pinning the year’s hopes for football glory.
... said Erika Hayes James, an associate professor of business administration at the University of Virginia. ... Crisis management in the business context isn’t something that is taught in college or graduate programs, James said, but it’s something that businesses need to be prepared for — just ask Toyota or BP. To provide that education, James has co-authored a book with University of Michigan professor Lynn Perry Wooten called “Leading Under Pressure: From Surviving to Thriving Before, During and After a Crisis.”
... The Chesapeake Clean Water and Ecosystem Restoration Act is part of the solution needed to restore our rivers and streams. ... If passed, the bill will: ... Provide for new rural jobs — more than 11,000 new jobs of at least a year's duration, according to an economic study by the University of Virginia.
Athletes from the University of Virginia's national champion men's soccer and women's rowing teams are being invited to the White House to meet President Barack Obama. The White House said Friday more than 30 teams that won NCAA titles are being invited to a reception with the president next month.
Water consumption at the University of Virginia has increased for the fifth consecutive year, according to data provided by university officials. ... “While the university continues to benefit from the many water conservation initiatives that have been implemented, the construction of energy- and water-intensive research and hospital facilities in the last couple of years is starting to cause an upward trend in water consumption,” wrote UVa’s director of utilities, Cheryl Gomez, in an e-mail to Charlottesville Tomorrow. However, Gomez said, UVa’s overall water usage has...
By Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor and author of “Why Don’t Students Like School?”
The best books show you a new way of thinking about a familiar issue. Paul Peterson’s "Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning", offers a new way of thinking about education reform by recounting the histories of reformers.
... The three-year grant from the Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund will provide funds for conservation groups, universities--including Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia--and state and county agencies to review local stormwater codes and ordinances. The results will be used to create scorecards for localities.