Good teachers are already doing this. They will take a standard like this and use a student's real life to build a better understanding of the concepts.

If you don't draw and think well, your art career will be short and unpleasant. The basics serve the digital end and give the kids a vastly superior portfolio when they leave here.

School divisions know that memos are the primary means we communicate with them.

Virginia's constitution provides for a great deal of autonomy for the local school divisions.

You have a law that provides funding for certain schools, but the accountability applies to all schools, even those who do not receive Title I funding.

Typically school divisions will send a dozen or so individuals to something like this.

We have an accountability program that also holds students accountable in history and science. But students aren't going to do well in history and science if they're not good readers.

Legislators have been hearing about all of the hoops schools have to jump through with the No Child Left Behind Act, in addition to what was already a system of state accountability.