David Naff, Ph.D., is Director of the Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium (MERC); Assistant Professor, Department of Foundations of Education in the VCU School of Education; and, Faculty Director of Vertically Integrated Projects at VCU.

David Naff is the Director of the Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium. He is a graduate of the Educational Psychology PhD program in the VCU School of Education.

Naff, D., Friend-Harris, F., Hart, S., Shenker, M., Willis, P., & Chen, C. (2022, July 20), How can we support mental health in schools through a researcher-practitioner partnership?

David Naff, Ph.D., leads a variety of collaborative research projects focusing on enduring and emerging societal and educational challenges. An experienced communicator and researcher, Dr. Naff plans and executes the communication of research findings via various channels, including social media, open-access research reports and briefs, podcast ...

David Naff is a professor in the Education department at Virginia Commonwealth University - see what their students are saying about them or leave a rating yourself.

Hosted by David Naff (MERC Director). Understanding the Virginia Literacy Act MERC research and policy brief providing an overview of relevant trends, literature, and policies pertaining to the Virginia Literacy Act and discussed the implications at the state and local level.

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The COVID-19 pandemic generated massive disruptions into the lives of PK-12 students, faculty, and families, accelerating existing documented increases in mental health challenges while simultaneously disrupting access to school-based mental health professionals (Naff et al., 2020).

This is the annual report of the Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium (MERC) in the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University for the 2023-2024 academic year.