BOTETOURT COUNTY, Va. – SOL testing is going on right now across Virginia. It's a stressful time for students, parents and teachers. "I actually had just become an assistant principal in Roanoke ...

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 ...

The Virginia Department of Education has announced that they are raising the minimum passing scores for the math and reading SOL tests. Many school divisions have been discussing this recent change ...

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 ...

NORFOLK -- More testing problems have cropped up in Norfolk schools. School officials say two people who proctored Standards of Learning (SOL) tests at Campostella Elementary school last spring did ...

“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 ...