<< Back to Faculty Daphna Bassok 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 Ridley Hall 258 Curriculum Vitae (302.4 KB) @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 professor of education and public policy 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. 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UVA | Batten Faculty Excellence Award Winners News 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.
Child Care Centers Are Turning Away Families Due to Teacher Turnover News Batten School professor Daphna Bassok spoke with UVA Today about the how teacher turnover is impacting child care centers.
UVA Has 5% of Education Scholars Ranked as 'Most Influential' News Four Batten School faculty members affiliated with the EdPolicyWorks research center once again placed in the national rankings of influential education scholars.
Hard-to-staff centers: Exploring center-level variation in the persistence of child care teacher turnover Research High rates of teacher turnover in child care settings have negative implications for young children's learning experiences and for efforts to improve child care quality. Prior research has explored the prevalence and predictors of turnover at the individual teacher level, but less is known about turnover at the center level––specifically, how turnover varies across child care centers or whether staffing challenges persist year after year for some centers. This study tracks annual turnover rates for all publicly funded child care centers that were continuously operating in Louisiana from the 2015-16 to 2018-19 school years.
Batten Faculty Recognized for Excellence in Teaching, Service, Research and Engagement News This academic year, Batten School professors won a slew of internal and external recognitions for excellence in teaching, service, research and engagement.
Small Students, Big Opportunities News Working in partnership with policymakers, Professor Daphna Bassok aims to provide long-term solutions to real-world problems for America's youngest learners.
Batten's Lipscomb Receives UVA's Prestigious Public Impact-Focused Research Award News Batten professor Molly Lipscomb was honored with the university's Public Impact-Focused Research Award for her work examining the impact of bringing public services to low-income households in countries where services are needed.
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.