11/9/2011 – Local school boards are understandably drooling over the possibility of getting out from under the poorly-devised accountability rules of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). That federal system has...

Local school boards are understandably drooling over the possibility of getting out from under the poorly-devised accountability rules of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). But it won’t be a free...

In 2010, Virginia became the 28th state to create a formal policy for the establishment of full-time multi-district virtual schools — online education through which students anywhere in the state...

I still have my notes from nine years ago. Speaking at a dinner meeting hosted by the Thomas Jefferson Institute, then-Virginia School Board President Mark Christie argued that “No Child...

Much has been made of the rising number of Virginia schools failing to meet the federal standards of “Adequate Yearly Progress” (AYP). But is AYP a good measure of academic...

Study after study have repeatedly demonstrated that the most important feature in improving student performance is the quality of the teacher. So how did Virginia’s local school boards when they...

In the 21st Century, learning need not be limited to classes held in a bricks and mortar building. Today, more than a million students take online courses through their school...

Is Florida an educational wasteland? It’s an important question because some members of the Virginia General Assembly seem to think so and base their decisions on that assumption. But when...