Trashing Virginia’s Standards of Learning
A heavyweight group of Virginia school superintendents won’t directly say they are trying to trash the Standards of Learning, but that’s effectively what they seem to be up to.
Spearheaded by Fairfax Schools chief Jack Dale, the group is trying to get the state to allow students to take the dreaded SOLS anytime during the school year, which would be a change from the currently scheduled end-of-year exam schedule.
They want to do this, according to this story by my colleague Kevin Sieff, so that they can offer kids who pass the exams early in the year more thoughtful, hands-on classes. Dale told Sieff: “Our students are bored because they’re not doing the hands-on kind of learning that they’re great at.”
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