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Daphna Bassok
Oct 29, 2024

Bassok Wins Award to Study Childcare Access

UVA Batten Professor Daphna Bassok and her team were awarded a $1.2 million federal grant for a new project to accurately measure the number and quality of childcare options in communities across Virginia – a critical first step towards improving childcare access.

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Jun 21, 2024

UVA | Batten Faculty Excellence Award Winners

Each year, Batten’s Executive Committee selects the Batten Faculty Awards Winners in four areas of review -- research, teaching, service and engagement -- in recognition for the faculty members’ contributions throughout the previous year. We congratulate this year's winners: Ashley Jardina, Andy Pennock, Dan Player and Daphna Bassok. 

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Feb 25, 2021

Understanding COVID-19-Era Enrollment Drops among Early-Grade Public School Students

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly disrupted schooling nationwide, raising serious concerns about the impact of the pandemic on children’s learning. But, as Batten’s Daphna Bassok and co-author Anna Shapiro write in Brooking’s “Brown Center Chalkboard” blog, relatively less has been written about the experiences of the “missing children”—those who have not enrolled in public school at all.

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