When standards of learning (SOLs) first appeared in my Northern Virginia public-school classroom nearly seven years ago, they were hardly more than a lunch-table punch line — another unfortunate abbreviation coined by board-of-education bureaucrats to browbeat our low-achieving, high-minority school. SOLs constituted a body of knowledge that students would learn in each academic subject. The […]
Emmet Rosenfeld
Emmet Rosenfeld teaches English at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia.
