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Orange Dot Report 6.0 (2024)
Unleashing Our Potential: Family Self-Sufficiency in the Charlottesville Region
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Research focused on the landscape of education in the Charlottesville-Albemarle area and across the Commonwealth.
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Examining the heterogeneous early literacy profiles of first-grade students who are English learners
This study examined the heterogeneity of early literacy profiles of English learners and non-English learners.
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Rates of chronic absenteeism in Montessori and non-Montessori Title 1 schools
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.
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Picturing Climate Justice: Data Stories
Picturing Climate Justice provides a window into local actions calling for a just response to climate change.
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Leveling Language Access: Using Multilingual Tutors in Secondary Classrooms
Multilingual tutoring is an evidence back intervention to decreasing educational disparities in emerging multilingual students.
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Informatics-enabled citizen science to advance health equity
The COVID-19 pandemic has once again highlighted the ubiquity and persistence of health inequities along with our inability to respond to them in a timely and effective manner. There is an opportunity to address the limitations of our current approaches through new models of…
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Albemarle County Equity Profile
The Albemarle County Equity Profile analyzes various conditions across demographic groups and geographic areas that contribute to well-being.
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COVID-19 Wraparound Services Program Evaluation
The Equity Center worked with a web of community partners to provide wraparound services to individuals during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Transportation Equity and Accessibility in the Charlottesville Region
Transportation in the region is significantly inequitable, privileging systems and policies that require
access to automobiles and the ability to afford them.
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Disorientation as a Learning Objective: Applying Transformational Learning Theory in Participatory Action Pedagogy
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.