Arlington Public Schools in Virginia is proposing a plan that would enable middle and high school students to retake or redo certain assignments and reduce the weight that homework has on a student’s ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Elementary and middle school students who fail the spring Standards of Learning (SOL) tests — by narrow margins or because of extenuating circumstances — will be allowed to re-take the ...

Kids sat shoulder-to-shoulder as they worked through an English language arts assignment at Dodson Elementary School on a sunny morning in early June. They were tasked with circling two-syllable words ...

“Did you finish studying for your math test?” I said, a little too sharply, to my 12-year-old son one morning. “Sort of,” he sighed. “It doesn’t even matter. If I don’t do well I’ll just retake it.” ...