<< Back to Faculty Daphna Bassok Associate Professor of Education and Public Policy Education & Training PhD, Economics of Education, Stanford University MA, Economics, Stanford University MA, Policy Analysis, Stanford University BA, Economics and History, University of Michigan 434-982-5415 dbassok@virginia.edu Olsson Hall, 238B Curriculum Vitae @daphnabassok Courses taught Evaluating the Effectiveness of Social Innovations Data Management for Analysis Causal Inference in Education Research Areas of focus Economics Education UVA partners EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness School of Education and Human Development Daphna Bassok is the Batten Bicentennial Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Virginia and associate director of EdPolicyWorks, a collaboration between the School of Education and Human Development and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Her research focuses on early childhood education policy and efforts to improve early childhood education at scale. She is particularly interested in policies aimed at supporting the early childhood education workforce. Bassok directs the Study of Early Education through Partnerships (SEE-Partnerships), which works closely with early childhood policymakers at the Virginia and Louisiana departments of education to evaluate policies aimed at improving early childhood systems. Currently, she is leading a multi-year evaluation of Virginia’s Federal Preschool Development Grant Birth to Five initiative, which aims to expand access to stable, affordable and quality early education for all Virginia children. As part of that evaluation, her team is leading the first-ever randomized controlled trial measuring how financial support for early childhood educators impacts turnover and attrition. Through a long-standing research-policy partnership in Louisiana, Bassok and colleagues are studying state efforts to reduce early childhood teacher turnover including Louisiana’s novel approach to credentialing child care teachers, and the impacts of policies to increase teacher compensation. Bassok’s work has been generously funded by the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Spencer Foundation, the Smith-Richardson Foundation and the Foundation for Child Development. She holds a Ph.D. in the economics of education, an M.A. in economics and an M.A. in policy analysis and evaluation, all from Stanford University. Related Content Four Batten Professors Ranked as Nation’s Most Influential Education Scholars News 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. 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Four Batten Professors Ranked as Nation’s Most Influential Education Scholars News 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.
How Public Preschool Can Help, and How to Make Sure It Doesn’t Hurt News 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.
Coronavirus and Schools: Reflections on Education One Year into the Pandemic News One year ago, the World Health Organization declared the spread of COVID-19 a worldwide pandemic. Batten's Daphna Bassok and fellow experts examine how the pandemic upended the education landscape in the past year, what it’s taught us about schooling, and where we go from here.
New Batten and School of Education Program Helps Virginia Schools Respond to the Pandemic News Students in the inaugural class of Ed Policy Associates are collaborating with Virginia policymakers on vital research, and gaining vital experience at the same time.
Understanding COVID-19-Era Enrollment Drops among Early-Grade Public School Students News 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.
UVA Honors Its Leading Researchers at Boar's Head Banquet News The inaugural Research Achievement Awards featured University leaders handing out 13 honors to UVA’s most outstanding researchers, including Batten's Daphna Bassok and Brian Williams.
With a Kindergarten Teacher’s Perspective, Professor Pushes Early Childhood Education News Daphna Bassok first became acutely aware of the importance of early childhood education when she taught in a kindergarten classroom. The difference in readiness between the children who came into her classroom with preschool experience and those without was striking, she said.
Measuring the Quality of Teacher-Child Interactions at Scale: The Implications of Using Local Practitioners to Conduct Classroom Observations Research
Batten Faculty Dominate the University's New Public Service Awards Program News UVA’s Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost created a new awards program to commend faculty for the contributions their public service makes to student learning, the advancement of scholarship and creative activity, and the University’s own public mission.