Before the fall
Only days before her students take one of those major state Standards of Learning tests known in Virginia
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Before the fall
How CHS’ Freshman Academy works to keep kids from dropping out
Only days before her students take one of those major state Standards of Learning tests known in Virginia
Sordid boon
It is probably no coincidence that Charlottesville High School’s Freshman Academy got more love from administrators after the passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2001. Arguably the most influential—and maligned—federal education act since the 1964 Civil Rights Act pushed public school integration, NCLB uses test scores to measure “school accountability” and sets annual […]
A good number is hard to find
This year’s graduating class of 261 had 451 students in ninth grade—which means the dropout rate should be huge, right? Try 3 percent. That’s the official number for the Charlottesville City Schools division from 2005-06, a number derived by the number of students who drop out in a year divided by the total number of […]
Four Virginia Artists
art With Charlottesville turning its collective eye to photography via the Festival of the Photograph, the UVA Art Museum devotes a small space to a related exhibition that gives just a taste of four Virginia camera artists. This is a disparate quartet of heavyweights: fine artists and top-notch journalists including Sally Mann, Sam Abell, Emmet […]
“The Walking Dead, Book 2”
comics You can always count on zombies for a good time. Those irascible brain-munchers have been pop-culture staples since at least Colonial times, trading on race/class fears to give the upper crust a little something to fret about at night. Zombies have been best used in film, from George Romero’s Living Dead movies to the […]
Old Times
stage One measure of a dramatic production is its success in bringing out qualities not apparent to a reader. On seeing director Francine Smith’s Old Times, I realized I had overlooked much of the play’s humor amid the ominous stares, pregnant silences and coded commonplaces that were expected features of Harold Pinter’s 1971 script. Such […]
Beer-serving parents to serve time
Two parents who were convicted of providing alcohol to minors, and who tried to take their case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, will be forced to serve a 27-month sentence.
Shooting suspect unfit for trial
Police now have three people in custody who, they suspect, fired bullets into a crowd of youths on Prospect Avenue on March 2, seriously injuring a 16-year-old Charlottesville High School student. One suspect is in custody at the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail. Another is still in New York City, where he was picked up by […]
Thieves take $25,000 in laptops
A cart full of about 20 laptop computers, meant as teaching tools for city elementary kids, was stolen, along with two desktop computers, on June 7, Charlottesville police say. The computers, many of them new, white Apple MacBooks, are worth about $25,000 total. Sometime after 6pm last Thursday, police suspect, one or more robbers broke […]
Shoppers’ World sold for $27M
Shoppers’ World has been bought by the owners of Barracks Road Shopping Center, Federal Realty Investment Trust.