Youth, Schools, and Child Care

Self-efficacy is the belief that a person can do what it takes to reach their goals. The research team works with local school districts to collect data on the career self-efficacy of 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.

Improving educational outcomes for all Virginians will bolster our commonwealth’s economy and create competitive workers for the future, and middle and high school course taking decisions are an essential crossroads where many students can set themselves up for future success.

Trend data for a selection of measures on the well-being of children and families in the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County.

Trend data for a selection of measures on the well-being of children and families in the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County.

Reflecting on a participatory action course through the analytical lens of transformational learning theory, this paper considers the pedagogical and ethical challenges and opportunities for planning education through collaborative action.

This study examined the heterogeneity of early literacy profiles of English learners and non-English learners.

In this study, we asked whether Montessori schools, which tend to have high student engagement, are associated with lower average rates of chronic absenteeism and/or smaller racial disparities therein relative to non-Montessori schools.

This study explores language ideologies within a multilingual tutoring program. We analyze the perspectives of multilingual university-students (n = 49) who were trained as tutors and paired with high school-aged multilingual learners.