The writer, senior vice president for the think tank Education Sector,
was a member of the Fairfax County School Board from 1991 to 2000 and
chairman of the board from 1996 to 1998.
A decade into the school accountability movement, pockets of
resistance to standardized testing are sprouting up around the country,
with parents and students opting out of the high-stakes test
As superintendent in Lubbock, Tex., Karen Garza joined hundreds of
volunteers in a door-to-door campaign to persuade students who had
dropped out of school to come back to the classroom.
Fairfax County Executive Ed Long has recommended giving the county's
school system a 2 percent increase in funding over the transfer it
received last year.
....."Ours is a work in progress, from the teacher end and the student end," says Oakland High Principal Jeff Rogers, who is working to convince more staff that discipline is about teaching self-di
