Virginia Policy Partnership Collaborative
What We Do
The Virginia Policy Partnership Collaborative is an effort aimed at connecting researchers and students at the University of Virginia with education policymakers to address pressing education problems in the Commonwealth through careful research.
Our Work
UVA researchers and students are actively working with policymakers and educators across Virginia. Listening to what questions practitioners and policymakers are asking and what problems they are working to solve, the VPPC works to connect active research to real-world challenges facing education in Virginia, from early childhood through the college years.
Our Focus
Like those through the VPPC, sustained and collaborative partnerships between researchers, policymakers and educators are an important part of addressing education’s most pressing challenges and result in measurable, concrete outcomes for students, teachers and schools.
VPPC Projects
- Advancing Effective Interactions & Instruction
- LINKB5
- SEE-Partnerships
- STREAMin3
- VA's Federal Preschool Development Grant B-5
- VKRP
- ECE Resource Hub
- Virginia Literacy Partnerships
- Personalized Transfer Guidance
- Some College No Degree
- Teacher Working Conditions
- Virginia Working Conditions and School Climate Surveys
Associated Faculty
Daphna Bassok
- Batten Bicentennial Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education
- Associate Director, EdPolicyWorks
Benjamin L. Castleman
- Newton and Rita Meyers Associate Professor in the Economics of Education
Jason T. Downer
- Professor
- Director, Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning
Luke C. Miller
- Research Associate Professor
Emily Solari
- Edmund H. Henderson Professor of Education
Amanda P. Williford
- Batten Bicentennial Professor of Early Childhood Education
- Associate Director for Early Childhood Education, CASTL
- Clinical Psychologist
James H. Wyckoff
- Memorial Professor of Education
Affiliated Research Centers
VPPC News
How Researchers, Policymakers and Practitioners Can Partner to Improve Early Childhood Education
In a new volume, researchers highlight the ways partnerships between researchers and policymakers are a promising approach to effectively expanding high quality early childhood education.