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Monday,
April 10, 2006
A
CHILD IS displaying deviant behavior at
school — teasing, lying, cheating.
Teachers make better assessments of bad
behaviors than parents, according to a
study by University of Virginia associate
professor Timothy Konold, coordinator of
research, statistics and evaluation at
U.Va.’s Curry School of Education.
These behaviors may be learned from their
parents, so the parents don’t necessarily
recognize them as deviant as consistently
as teachers do. But it’s the parents
that are better at assessing their
child’s emotional behaviors, such
as anxiety or sadness, making it all the
more important for teachers and parents
to work together in the child’s best
interest, Konold said.
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Armstead
Robinson was a pioneer in African-American
studies, a historian of the Civil War and
Reconstruction and the founder and director
of the University of Virginia’s Carter
G. Woodson Institute for African-American
and African Studies. U.Va.’s Center
for the Study of Race and Law and the Black
Law Students Association will sponsor a
panel discussion on “The Demise of
the Confederacy to the Rise of African-American
Studies: The Intellectual Legacy of Armstead
Robinson,” tomorrow at 4:30 p.m.
in Caplin Pavlion. Panelists will include
Paul M. Gaston, U.Va. professor emeritus
of History, and Corey D. B. Walker, assistant
professor of Religious Studies and of African-American
at U.Va. A reception will follow. For information,
contact Kim
Forde-Mazrui.
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Higher
education experts predict that the already
unprecedented surge of interest in East
Asian languages will only
intensify over the next decade. University
of Virginia history professor Ron Dimberg
(left), who served as the director of U.Va.’s
East Asia Center from its beginning in 1975
to 1979, sees U.Va. as part of this national
trend.
According to Bradly Reed (right), the center’s
current director, “Our knowledge of
China and other parts of East Asia has been
grounded in ignorance for decades,” he
said. “But since the Reform era [of
the 1980s], China has attracted enormous
interest for students who want to pursue
jobs [there] in business or with the State
Department.” Through U.Va.’s
center, students interested in
East Asia languages can choose from course
offerings taught by more
than 30 faculty who
represent such disciplines as anthropology,
history, English, politics, music, economics,
religious studies, education, gender studies
and architecture. In addition, the center
provides students with a range of study abroad
opportunities,
including three University-based programs. Full
story.
