Where others see numbers, Kevin Hughes sees faces. Hughes, who used to help write standardized tests for the state of Virginia, looks at the graphs of students' scores on Standards of Learning exams ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view outside at Chesterfield County Public Schools. (Courtesy of Chesterfield County Public Schools) In a rare moment of ...
WASHINGTON (7News) — On Tuesday, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced how students performed on the Commonwealth’s Standards of Learning (SOL) tests. “The big takeaway is that some school divisions ...
On the fourth year of Standards of Learning testing since schools shuttered in 2020, students in third through eighth grade by and large passed the exams at rates similar to or slightly better than ...
“I didn’t even try because I always fail.” Fail. This heartbreaking statement is from a student in a Williamsburg-James City County middle school who recently took their Virginia Standards of Learning ...
Standardized testing in Virginia is set for a major overhaul, with state leaders planning updates to the Standards of Learning (SOL) tests that have not been updated since 2005. The changes are aimed ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – Scores from the 2022-23 Standards of Learning tests, or SOLs, were largely unchanged from last school year but are still below Virginia’s pre-pandemic pass rates. Virginia’s ...
Three times in the past few weeks, several thousand Virginia students were unable to finish their online Standards of Learning tests due to computer glitches. Sometimes the problem was due to the ...
All SOL tests are available online, except the English writing tests. The state Department of Education is taking steps to move them to the Web. Some school systems are limiting online testing to SOLs ...