Early next year, parents in Arlington County will be joined by more and more of their national colleagues who go to a website to keep track of what their children are changing in that history papers, tested or skip language classes of algebraic United Kingdom that is important.
But in the area
Students at Woodlawn make their courses and get an hour of unsupervised time each week. They call teachers by their first names. At school
Woodlawn, with about 600 students in grades 6 through 12, taking seriously its quest to teach the value of personal responsibility. Sometimes, that means circumscribing the influence of parents.
But the other movements, flourished in the Washington area and elsewhere, argues that parents with greater insight and value test score can help steer their children toward academic success. Arlington