While 31 states use or are planning to implement some form of high school exit exam, a study finds some states are also dropping the practice. The report by the Washington-based Center on Education ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. High school exit exams are dissipating in states from coast to coast, to the praise of some and dismay of others. The pattern caps ...

High school exit exams, which are required by nearly half the states, measure skills that students are usually taught in middle school or the first year of high school. That finding, according to a ...

Since 1979, a growing number of states have required high-school students to pass exit examinations before they can receive diplomas. For nearly as long, scholars and policy makers have debated ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. When 18-year-old Edgar Brito thinks about what he’ll do in the future, mechanical engineering is ...

Many states picked diploma pathways over high school exit exams. Did students benefit? When 18-year-old Edgar Brito thinks about what he’ll do in the future, mechanical engineering is high on the list ...