Tag: SOL
Our View: Back to school, and back to work
There’s something magical about the first day of school.
From a kindergartener with her new backpack ready to embark on her educational career, to a...
Our View: The conundrum of standardized tests
The release this week of preliminary data from the 2018-19 Standards of Learning tests left Alexandria City Public Schools in a familiar space: gains...
2018-2019 SOL results were a mixed bag for ACPS
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
There was good news and bad news for Alexandria City Public Schools in the Standards of Learning test results for...
ACPS’ SOL scores rise in math, decrease in other subjects
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
The Virginia Department of Education released the results for statewide Standards of Learning tests for the 2018-2019 school year on...
New principal named for Jefferson-Houston School
Alexandria City Public Schools Interim Superintendent Lois Berlin has appointed a D.C. Public Schools principal and former ACPS employee as principal of Jefferson-Houston Pre-K-8...
Letter to the Editor: Methodology used to examine SOL performance was...
To the editor:
I’m writing in response to the August 24 article and editorial pieces that attempt summaries of the changes in SOL test performance...
ACPS test score decline part of two-year trend
By Alexa Epitropoulos and Denise Dunbar
Alexandria City Public Schools saw slight declines in the pass rates of all five general subject categories of its...
First confidence, then success
ACPS writing gains highlight first batch of state test results