Academics
T.C. Williams offers more than a dozen different AP courses, including a course in organic chemistry. It has been ranked by the 2006 Washington Post "Challenge Index" with an index of 1.494. Under the leadership of Dr. Manu Patel, T.C. was the first Virginia high school to defeat Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia at the Science Bowl.
In March 2010, T.C. Williams was determined to be a "persistently lowest achieving school" based on standardized test scores.
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“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain “above the fray” only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
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