Truly SOL

Virginia, amusingly, has decided to call its state public school tests the Standards Of Learning Exam. Even more hilariously, Ryan Avent reports that the SOL Exam is now going to ask third graders to understand opportunity costs, a concept that all-too-many adults seem to have a shaky grasp of.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/06/truly-sol/45395/