Here are contrasting snapshots of life under Virginia's Standards of Learning program. Last June at Alexandria's Minnie Howard School, more than 600 ninth-graders took the SOL world history exam.

The president of the Virginia Board of Education said yesterday that he will push to include essay questions on the state's standardized upper-level tests in history and social studies. Board ...

“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 ...

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” ...

WASHINGTON — More students passed Virginia standardized tests this year than last in most, but not all, Northern Virginia school systems. Statewide, the 2015-16 Standards of Learning test results ...

Here’s a pop quiz: Since their inception in the 1990s, the Standards of Learning tests have (a) relied exclusively on multiple-choice questions, (b) rewarded rote memorization, (c) resulted in ...

Fairfax County schools saw its scores on state standardized tests stagnate, according to data released Wednesday.While county schools fared better than peers across the state on the 2013-14 Standards ...