Research

This toolkit is designed to provide a range of resources and strategies that will enhance engagement skills and help achieve community-focused goals.

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.

This report aims to clarify current knowledge, as well as knowledge gaps, to support community solutions.

Unleashing Our Potential: Family Self-Sufficiency in the Charlottesville Region

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.

Exploring the impact of rising temperatures and tree canopy on Charlottesville neighborhoods.

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.

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.