Batten School professor Daphna Bassok spoke with UVA Today about the how teacher turnover is impacting child care centers.

Four Batten School faculty members affiliated with the EdPolicyWorks research center once again placed in the national rankings of influential education scholars.

In this lecture, Allison Atteberry, associate professor at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public and director of EdPolicyWorks, shares her research and work on preschool education. Specifically, Atteberry explains the causal effects of full- vs. half-day preschool in Westminster Public Schools.

Ben Castleman, associate professor of public policy and education at the Batten School, researches whether predictive analytics can be used to provide students and instructors with tailored recommendations about course and career pathways.

In this lecture, associate professor at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, Ben Castleman, shares innovations that transform the lives of youth worldwide, and walks the class through the nuances and unidentified consequences of these innovations.

The Batten School and the School of Education and Human Development welcome State of Virginia Secretary of Education, Aimee Guidera, and SEHD’s Dean Rowley for a fireside chat open to students.

EdPolicyWorks welcomed Allison Atteberry, associate professor of education and public policy, as its new director in August.

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.

This research identifies more than $100 billion in loan forgiveness available to as many as 3.5 million borrowers through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) waiver program. Potential beneficiaries of this initiative are disproportionately employed in occupations like teaching and health care. However, the distribution of potential benefits of the PSLF waiver depends critically on the extent to which those with high income or advanced degrees are differentially likely to take-up benefits conditional on eligibility.

In a study for World Bank, Batten's Lucy Bassett and co-author share findings about teacher preparedness in Bangladesh's pre-primary education programs.