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Learn more Mar 30, 2022 Alumna Outlines Child Care Policy in National Publication Education Economics Batten alum Maureen Coffey (MPP '21), a policy analyst on the early childhood policy team at Center for American Progress, says that lack of affordable child care costs families, employers and the entire economy. In an op-ed for MarketWatch, Coffey and co-author Hailey Gibbs outline how a comprehensive national approach could solve the problem. Learn more Mar 29, 2022 Professor Sarah Turner: The more tuition rises, the cheaper college gets — for some Education The Hechinger Report shares findings from Batten School Professor Sarah Turner's latest research on where, and for whom, college tuition costs are rising. Learn more Mar 9, 2022 Why Fewer People are Enrolling in Community Colleges Education Batten School Professor Sarah Turner and co-author Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach found that high unemployment during COVID diverged from prior downturns and enrollment at community colleges dropped, with the drop larger among men. Learn more Jan 26, 2022 Why aren’t more adults finishing community college? Education Batten School professor Ben Castleman and colleagues explore programs enacted by states to increase enrollment in community colleges. Despite these efforts, numbers have been steadily declining for much of the 2010s. Is there a way to get adults back to community college? Learn more Jan 14, 2022 Four Batten Professors Ranked as Nation’s Most Influential Education Scholars Education Batten School professors Daphna Bassok, Ben Castleman, Sarah Turner and Jim Wyckoff were among 200 scholars nationwide to rank as highly influential in education policy, according to Education Week. Learn more Dec 01, 2021 How behavioral science could get people back into public libraries Education What keeps someone from activating their library card or returning a book? Brooklyn Public Library worked with behavioral science experts including Batten professor Benjamin Castleman and alum Katharine Meyer (MPP '16) to find out. Read in Fast Company Nov 12, 2021 How Public Preschool Can Help, and How to Make Sure It Doesn’t Hurt Education Congress is considering universal pre-K and subsidies for child care. Batten's Daphna Bassok and other researchers spoke to The New York Times about how these policies can benefit children, and when they can backfire. Read in The New York Times Nov 3, 2021 Castleman: To Level the Playing Field in College Completion: Invest in Advising Education According to new research from Batten's Benjamin Castleman and Texas A&M University's Andrew Barr, intensive college advising leads to large increases in the share of low-income high school seniors that earn their bachelor's degree. Read in The Hill Oct 29, 2021 Policy for Women — and Everyone Social Equity A new five-week course from Professor Lucy Bassett brings a feminist perspective to the Batten curriculum. Learn more Oct 12, 2021 Brown-Iannuzzi, Claibourn, Trawalter: ‘Confederate memorials are associated with hate’ — New UVA study shows ‘significant’ correlation between lynchings and monuments Racial Justice and Equity Social Equity A UVA research team, including three Batten professors, uncovered a quantifiable relationship between Confederate memorials and the explicitly racist practice of lynching. 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Mar 31, 2022 Sesame Workshop President is 2022 Jefferson Medalist in Citizen Leadership Education Leadership Humanitarian Policy Sherrie Rollins Westin, president of Sesame Workshop and a 1980 graduate of UVA, has been named this year’s recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Citizen Leadership, an award selected by the Batten School. Learn more
Mar 30, 2022 Alumna Outlines Child Care Policy in National Publication Education Economics Batten alum Maureen Coffey (MPP '21), a policy analyst on the early childhood policy team at Center for American Progress, says that lack of affordable child care costs families, employers and the entire economy. In an op-ed for MarketWatch, Coffey and co-author Hailey Gibbs outline how a comprehensive national approach could solve the problem. Learn more
Mar 29, 2022 Professor Sarah Turner: The more tuition rises, the cheaper college gets — for some Education The Hechinger Report shares findings from Batten School Professor Sarah Turner's latest research on where, and for whom, college tuition costs are rising. Learn more
Mar 9, 2022 Why Fewer People are Enrolling in Community Colleges Education Batten School Professor Sarah Turner and co-author Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach found that high unemployment during COVID diverged from prior downturns and enrollment at community colleges dropped, with the drop larger among men. Learn more
Jan 26, 2022 Why aren’t more adults finishing community college? Education Batten School professor Ben Castleman and colleagues explore programs enacted by states to increase enrollment in community colleges. Despite these efforts, numbers have been steadily declining for much of the 2010s. Is there a way to get adults back to community college? Learn more
Jan 14, 2022 Four Batten Professors Ranked as Nation’s Most Influential Education Scholars Education Batten School professors Daphna Bassok, Ben Castleman, Sarah Turner and Jim Wyckoff were among 200 scholars nationwide to rank as highly influential in education policy, according to Education Week. Learn more
Dec 01, 2021 How behavioral science could get people back into public libraries Education What keeps someone from activating their library card or returning a book? Brooklyn Public Library worked with behavioral science experts including Batten professor Benjamin Castleman and alum Katharine Meyer (MPP '16) to find out. Read in Fast Company
Nov 12, 2021 How Public Preschool Can Help, and How to Make Sure It Doesn’t Hurt Education Congress is considering universal pre-K and subsidies for child care. Batten's Daphna Bassok and other researchers spoke to The New York Times about how these policies can benefit children, and when they can backfire. Read in The New York Times
Nov 3, 2021 Castleman: To Level the Playing Field in College Completion: Invest in Advising Education According to new research from Batten's Benjamin Castleman and Texas A&M University's Andrew Barr, intensive college advising leads to large increases in the share of low-income high school seniors that earn their bachelor's degree. Read in The Hill
Oct 29, 2021 Policy for Women — and Everyone Social Equity A new five-week course from Professor Lucy Bassett brings a feminist perspective to the Batten curriculum. Learn more
Oct 12, 2021 Brown-Iannuzzi, Claibourn, Trawalter: ‘Confederate memorials are associated with hate’ — New UVA study shows ‘significant’ correlation between lynchings and monuments Racial Justice and Equity Social Equity A UVA research team, including three Batten professors, uncovered a quantifiable relationship between Confederate memorials and the explicitly racist practice of lynching. Read in Charlottesville Tomorrow
Sep 21, 2021 Robinson: In the showdown over masks in K-12 schools, who will blink first? Education As some states ban K-12 mask mandates, Batten Professor of Law, Education and Public Policy Kimberly Jenkins Robinson says that the federal government is responsible for protecting our most vulnerable schoolchildren. Read in The Hill