Getting Campy Though the weather's still chilly, one very warm date already looms in the minds of many Northern Virginian parents and children: the last day of school. With summer on the horizon, youngsters are daydreaming about the long, sunny days while parents are doing their best to quell distant nightmares. What will the kids do all summer? Where will they go?
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Top Preschools
Quality child care is a teacher's lessons, a child's experiences and a parent's influence. "In the 1970s," said Sherril Reid, Annandale Weekday Preschool teacher, "learning through play was fancy baby-sitting. Now it's focused skill-building. Years ago, Play-Doh kept children busy; today it's a pre-writing tool to strengthen tiny hands."
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Top High Schools
How do Northern Virginia's public high schools compare to the rest of the state and to the nation as a whole? Look at the numbers. Eighty-one percent of our 2005 graduates headed off to college, handily beating the state average of seventy-three percent.
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The Future is Bright in Northern Virginia
What could be better than representing your school as the class valedictorian? Sharing the title with a good friend. At least that’s what Barbara Stoddard and Todd Bernhard, co-valedictorians for Alexandria’s T.C. Williams High...
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