House Republicans want to cut the number of Standards of Learning tests and improve the remaining assessments as part of a broader education agenda unveiled Tuesday. They seek more “blended learning” ...

Five school superintendents Wednesday made a case to the Virginia Board of Education: They want flexibility to administer some Standards of Learning tests earlier in the year and the opportunity for ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A study commissioned by Virginia's Board of Education found that students have scored better on several national achievement tests, including college entrance exams, since the state Standards of ...

A testing scandal at William Fleming High School has cost the Roanoke school system almost $52,000 in salaries and legal fees so far, with no resolution in sight, according to documents obtained by ...