Admissions & Aid Applying to Batten Admissions Blog Posts Tagged with Education Small Students, Big Opportunities Working in partnership with policymakers, Professor Daphna Bassok aims to provide long-term solutions to real-world problems for America's youngest learners. Read More Research and Commentary, EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, Education Sesame Workshop President is 2022 Jefferson Medalist in Citizen Leadership 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. Read More Humanitarian Policy, Leadership, Education Coffey: We can’t afford not to fix child care 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. Read More Alum in Action, Education, Economics Progressivity of Pricing at US Public Universities New research describes recent shifts in net tuition by family income and institution type and assesses the role of changes in state funding in generating these shifts. Read More Education Professor Sarah Turner: The more tuition rises, the cheaper college gets — for some The Hechinger Report shares findings from Batten School Professor Sarah Turner's latest research on where, and for whom, college tuition costs are rising. Read More Research and Commentary, Education Why Fewer People are Enrolling in Community Colleges 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. Read More Research and Commentary, Education Limited Supply and Lagging Enrollment: Production Technologies and Enrollment Changes at Community Colleges during the Pandemic Weak labor markets typically lead young workers to invest in skills. High unemployment during COVID diverged from prior downturns: enrollment at community colleges dropped by 9.5 percent between 2019 and 2020, with the drop larger among men. Read More Education Unfinished Business? Academic and Labor Market Profile of Adults With Substantial College Credits But No Degree Using data from the Virginia Community College System (VCCS), this case provides the first detailed profile on the academic, employment, and earnings trajectories of the SCND population and how these compare with VCCS graduates. The scholars show that the share of SCND students who are academically ready to re-enroll and would benefit from doing so may be substantially lower than policy makers anticipate. Read More Education Why aren’t more adults finishing community college? 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? Read More Research and Commentary, Education Four Batten Professors Ranked as Nation’s Most Influential Education Scholars 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. Read More Accolades, EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness, Education Pagination Page 1 Next page ›› Subscribe to Education Categories Curriculum(19) Minor(24) Alumni (1)BA(38) Events(8) Career Outcomes(5) Student Life(21) Accelerated MPP(40) Tuition and Financial Aid (1)New Student(2) Batten Ambassadors(18) Recommendations(6) Admissions(28) Personal Statement(2) Essays(4) Application(22) MPP(27)