“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 ...

NORFOLK, Va. - Standards of Learning (SOL) test results generally went up year-to-year in Virginia, but remain below pre-pandemic levels, according to the Virginia Dept. of Education. In a release, ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - The University of Virginia is taking a closer look at the state’s standards of learning (SOL) testing gaps, and what they show. Researchers studied the data of school divisions ...

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 ...

Teachers expressed some concerns about the pressures associated with SOL testing during a sit-down with Dan Gecker, president of the Virginia Board of Education, state Superintendent of Public ...

Testing for many will begin on Monday. Cave Spring Middle School will be testing specifically Monday, May 12 through Friday, May 16. -Bring at least two pens/pencils with good erasers, calculator with ...

Re “Teaching” (Your Views, Dec. 4): The letter writer asserts the Standards of Learning bugaboo precludes critical thinking and problem solving — the skills most necessary out in the real world.

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 ...