About News News Subscribe Health Policy (-) Education Facet Area of Focus - News Benjamin Castleman James H. Wyckoff Sarah Turner Allison Atteberry David Leblang Gabrielle Adams (-) Daphna Bassok Facet People - News School of Education and Human Development (-) EdPolicyWorks: Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness Facet UVA Partner - News Accolades Research and Commentary Facet News Type - News Jan 06, 2023 UVA Has 5% of Education Scholars Ranked as 'Most Influential' Education Four Batten School faculty members affiliated with the EdPolicyWorks research center once again placed in the national rankings of influential education scholars. Learn more Apr 27, 2022 Small Students, Big Opportunities Education Working in partnership with policymakers, Professor Daphna Bassok aims to provide long-term solutions to real-world problems for America's youngest learners. Learn more Jan 14, 2022 Four Batten Professors Ranked as Nation’s Most Influential Education Scholars Education 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. Learn more Nov 12, 2021 How Public Preschool Can Help, and How to Make Sure It Doesn’t Hurt Education 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. Read in The New York Times Mar 16, 2021 Coronavirus and Schools: Reflections on Education One Year into the Pandemic Education 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. Read in Brookings Feb 25, 2021 Understanding COVID-19-Era Enrollment Drops among Early-Grade Public School Students Education Health Policy 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. Read in Brookings Nov 19, 2019 With a Kindergarten Teacher’s Perspective, Professor Pushes Early Childhood Education Education 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. READ IN UVA TODAY Stay Up To Date with the Latest Batten News and Events Subscribe
Jan 06, 2023 UVA Has 5% of Education Scholars Ranked as 'Most Influential' Education Four Batten School faculty members affiliated with the EdPolicyWorks research center once again placed in the national rankings of influential education scholars. Learn more
Apr 27, 2022 Small Students, Big Opportunities Education Working in partnership with policymakers, Professor Daphna Bassok aims to provide long-term solutions to real-world problems for America's youngest learners. Learn more
Jan 14, 2022 Four Batten Professors Ranked as Nation’s Most Influential Education Scholars Education 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. Learn more
Nov 12, 2021 How Public Preschool Can Help, and How to Make Sure It Doesn’t Hurt Education 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. Read in The New York Times
Mar 16, 2021 Coronavirus and Schools: Reflections on Education One Year into the Pandemic Education 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. Read in Brookings
Feb 25, 2021 Understanding COVID-19-Era Enrollment Drops among Early-Grade Public School Students Education Health Policy 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. Read in Brookings
Nov 19, 2019 With a Kindergarten Teacher’s Perspective, Professor Pushes Early Childhood Education Education 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. READ IN UVA TODAY