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The Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) is a battery of foreign language tests produced by the Defense Language Institute and used by the United States Department of Defense (DoD). They are intended to assess the general language proficiency of native English speakers in a specific foreign language, in the skills of reading and listening.
The following standardized tests are designed and/or administered by state education agencies and/or local school districts in order to measure academic achievement across multiple grade levels in elementary, middle and senior high school, as well as for high school graduation examinations to measure proficiency for high school graduation.
The New School of Northern Virginia was founded in 1989 by John Potter. The school opened in Vienna, Virginia with 14 students in kindergarten through ninth grade. As of 2020, the school comprises four buildings: the main office building featuring the gym, media center, black box theatre, and classrooms, two academic buildings, and a science ...
The concept of the Governor's School actually started as a three-year grant funded program in Stafford County, Virginia, from 1970 - 1972. One hundred Stafford public high school students were selected as "day students" and 100 public high school students from across the state were invited to be "on campus" students and were housed at the then Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
As some workplaces begin to look into the advantages (and disadvantages) of a four-day workweek, a school board in Louisiana is experimenting with a shortened school week. Students in the Acadia ...
The Governor's Schools are a collection of more than 40 regional high schools and summer programs intended for gifted students. [16] The Virginia Council for Private Education oversees the regulation of 294 state accredited and 141 non-accredited private schools. [17] An additional 23,290 students receive homeschooling. [18]
The Virginia-based West Point School Board agreed to pay a former high school teacher, Peter Vlaming, $575,000 in damages and attorney’s fees after he refused to call a transgender student by ...
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is the latest leader to issue an executive order regarding phones in schools. He's requiring districts to limit or ban cellphones by Jan. 1, and many are already ...