P.G. schools ready to step up in science

Earlier this week, The Washington Examiner covered some pretty poor results from the Nation’s Report Card: By the eighth grade, for instance, 40 percent of Maryland students and 30 percent of Virginia’s were scoring “below basic” on the federal science standards.

Virginia emerged as a relative winner against the nationwide average of 38 percent falling “below basic,” while Maryland didn’t do as well. The story catches up with the heads of the science curricula from Fairfax and Alexandria (and has a “no comment” from Montgomery).