Peter Youngs

Peter Youngs is a professor and chair of the Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education at the University of Virginia. His research interests focus on how policies related to teacher preparation, induction, professional development, and evaluation are associated with beginning teachers’ instructional practices, commitment, and retention. He currently leads a study of how neural networks can be used to (a) automatically classify instructional activities in video recordings of elementary mathematics and language arts lessons and (b) provide feedback to teachers on their instruction. He served as co-editor for American Educational Research Journal from 2019 through 2024.