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Stepping Stones 2026 Report
The 2026 Stepping Stones Report focused on community well-being of families and children in Charlottesville and Albemarle
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Education Research
Research focused on the landscape of education in the Charlottesville-Albemarle area and across the Commonwealth.
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Albemarle and Charlottesville Community Wellbeing Profiles
The Community Wellbeing Profiles present current data on measures related to well-being in Albemarle County, the City of Charlottesville, and the combined area.
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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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Confederate monuments and the history of lynching in the American South: An empirical examination
Confederate monuments and the history of lynching in the American South: An empirical examination.
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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.
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Charlottesville Stop and Frisk
Dashboard on the who, where, and why of stop and frisk events in Charlottesville