Admissions & Aid Applying to Batten Admissions Blog Posts Tagged with School of Education and Human Development School of Education and Human Development One Year Later, the Class of 2020 Relishes In-Person Celebrations On Sunday, May 16, more than 2,800 of the graduates who gathered around screens last year massed behind the Rotunda, in person and in full color. A year in the making, Sunday’s ceremonies were full of touching moments, joyful reunions and some fun surprises, including a poem from Batten grad Hannah Semmes (BA '20). Read More Student Stories, School of Education and Human Development, School of Nursing, Education New Batten and School of Education Program Helps Virginia Schools Respond to the Pandemic 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. Read More Research and Commentary, School of Education and Human Development, Leadership, Education, Domestic Policy & Politics UVA Researchers Offer Data on One of Higher Education’s Most Dramatic Shifts In a new study, Batten’s Ben Castleman, along with his collaborators Gaby Lohner and Kelli Bird from the UVA School of Education and Human Development, investigated how the shift to online learning during COVID-19 has affected student success. Read More Research and Commentary, School of Education and Human Development, Education Holbein: Mail-In Balloting Increases Turnout, but Benefits Neither Party Voting by mail is a safe way to cast a ballot during the current pandemic, and does not benefit either political party, according to Batten's John Holbein. Read More Research and Commentary, School of Education and Human Development, Political Science, Democracy Joint YSI-Batten Information Session: Accelerated Master of Public Policy, Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy and Leadership, and Minor in Public Policy and Leadership Hosted by current students and Admissions staff, this is your chance to learn more about our degree programs and the application process, and ask questions about anything and everything related to admissions and the Batten experience. You will also hear from Curry students about their experiences with the Youth and Social Innovation major. Read More Admissions, School of Education and Human Development Parag A. Pathak - POSTPONED (to be rescheduled AY 20-21) Parag A. Pathak is the Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Microeconomics at MIT, founding co-director of the NBER Working Group on Market Design, and founder of MIT’s School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative (SEII), a laboratory focused on education, human capital, and the income distribution. Jointly sponsored by Curry, Economics, and the Frank Batten School Read More School of Education and Human Development, Department of Economics Daphna Bassok 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, particularly policies aimed at supporting the early childhood education workforce. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, Workshop, EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, School of Education and Human Development, Education, Economics Benjamin Castleman Ben Castleman is an associate professor of education and public policy at the Batten School and the founder and director of the Nudge4 Solutions Lab at UVA. His research focuses on policies to improve college access and success for low-income students. Several of his papers examine innovative strategies to deliver high-quality information about the college-going process to low-income students and their families, and to ease the process of students and families getting professional support when they need assistance Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, Workshop, EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, School of Education and Human Development, Education Chris Hulleman Chris Hulleman is an associate professor of education and public policy at the Batten School. Hulleman conducts research on educational interventions grounded in theories of social and personality psychology, motivation, and human development. Most recently, his work has focused on examining the extent to which helping students find relevance to their lives in their coursework increases learning and interest. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, School of Education and Human Development, Education Daniel W Player Dan Player is an associate professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. His research focuses on issues in education policy. His work has examined questions such as how teacher ability is recognized and rewarded in schools, whether teacher performance predicts turnover, and how teachers respond to working conditions. 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