Recent opinion polls confirm that Virginians consider education a key issue in this year’s General Assembly elections. This paper evaluates the K-12 education agenda for […]
Education Reform
This study focuses on the 25 percent of high school graduates required to take remedial courses at Virginia’s public colleges and universities. The author suggests […]
The goal of this paper is to substantiate the connection between attendance and achievement and to examine some low-cost strategies for raising student attendance. Special […]
In January 1998, Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore proposed a budget amendment that would provide funding for 56 percent of the cost of placing about 2000 […]
In this in-depth analysis of salaries and compensation for Virginia’s public college and university instructors, the Thomas Jefferson Institute showed how each institution of higher […]
In September 1997, the Virginia Board of Education adopted new regulations that make individual schools accountable for their performance on achievement tests based on the […]