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Local private schools see...

Early this month, the Albemarle County Planning Commission heard from not one but two private school headmasters at...

Clean listening

Have you ever really stopped and listened to lyrics like those in Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” or Jason Derulo’s...

Joyful noise

John D’earth was about 4 when his father—“a great listener, but not a musician”—taught him an important lesson about...

Mentor shift

Most kids use their Wii remotes to race cars or battle bad guys while playing games on their TV. C’erra Rhodes uses...

UVA student introduces yoga...

At 9am on Monday, when most of us were grumbling about returning to the office, a small group of fifth graders was...

Education Beat

The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors last week adopted a tax rate of 79.9 cents per $100 of assessed real estate...

Sleep on it

For years, Charlottesville’s fifth- through eighth-graders have hustled to make a first school bell at 7:40am. But...

Education beat

Our education reporting appears thanks to a partnership with Charlottesville Tomorrow. The funding future for an...

Seeing white

If you’re a parent of school-age children in Central Virginia, chances are you feel like your kids have been out of...

Education Beat

Albemarle County Public Schools parents and teachers spoke out in support of the school board’s $164.3 million...