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This inventive video on YouTube refers to proposed new high school graduation requirements in Rhode Island that, starting in 2012, would require that all students score at least «partially proficient» on standardized tests.

The Coalition Urges New York State to Convene a Commission to Re-Examine High School Graduation Requirements In November 2017, the Coalition wrote to Chancellor Rosa and Commissioner Elia supporting a proposal to establish a commission to re-examine New York State's graduation requirements and made several recommendations [PDF] for the commission to consider as alternatives to high - stakes exit exams.

(Students allowed to take (without local district approval) online courses for credit and use them to meet high school graduation requirements in 2 additional states.)

In late June, both chambers approved a companion measure that established statewide high - school graduation requirements in mathematics, science, and other disciplines.

Not exact matches

MCL 380.1502 (2) allows a school to credit a student's participation in extracurricular athletics or other extracurricular activities involving physical activity (sports, marching band, etc) as meeting the physical education graduation requirement.

She is currently working to get other states to pass a similar legislation in addition to a law that requires CPR training as a high school graduation requirement.

The State Board of Regents is close to finalizing a new CPR graduation requirement for high school students in New York

«These new regulations preserve the rigor of New York's graduation requirements while at the same time offering students comparably rigorous options that keep them engaged in school and learning.

If both the medical and graduate schools are unbending monoliths, redundancies in requirements can be introduced, day - to - day scheduling problems may result, and the time to graduation may be unnecessarily lengthened.

In Fordham's fifth annual Wonkathon, policy experts submitted twenty - three entries — a Wonkathon record — addressing whether our high school graduation requirements need to change, in light of diploma scandals in D.C., Maryland, and elsewherIn Fordham's fifth annual Wonkathon, policy experts submitted twenty - three entries — a Wonkathon record — addressing whether our high school graduation requirements need to change, in light of diploma scandals in D.C., Maryland, and elsewherin light of diploma scandals in D.C., Maryland, and elsewherin D.C., Maryland, and elsewhere:

If my student wants a high school diploma, I can help them understand how each block of time in class or each completed project adds up toward their graduation requirements.

The authors of Risk believed that the system was mainly in need of internal reforms: tougher coursework and graduation requirements, higher and more flexible salaries for teachers, a longer school -LSB-...]

As Reckhow and others have noted, the focus in grant making has been on pushing new approaches and broader policy changes that might indirectly foster improvement in high schools — through higher standards, stronger graduation requirements, and better teacher training.

As states across the U.S. move to adopt standardized tests as a means to determine grade promotion and school graduation, new research presented in the Harvard Educational Review shows that sole reliance on high - stakes tests as a graduation requirement may increase inequities among students by both race and gender.

These stories illustrate the argument in favor of creating smaller schools: students get personal attention, individualized learning plans, and grades based on long - term projects and performance - based graduation requirements.

The Philadelphia public schools are making a course in African and African - American history a requirement for graduation.

A task force studying educational improvement in Nebraska has called for a long list of reforms, including a new school - finance formula, far more state aid for schools, higher pay and longer contracts for teachers, a master - teacher program, and the establishment of statewide high - school graduation requirements.

And the «crisis» will be deepened by a gradual rise in the number of school - age children beginning in 1985, by increased graduation requirements in many states, and by an unusually...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed legislation that will make some significant changes in the state's accountability system and budgeting requirements for schools, including tougher high school graduation standards and elimination of a requirement that school districts must spend 65 percent of their operating budgets on classroom instruction.

The first - term Democrat cited tougher graduation requirements, increases in school funding, and an expansion of early - childhood education as accomplishments, in his speech to Illinois lawmakers.

«If this bill passes, students would no longer have an option to take electives, including some AP courses, beyond those offered at their traditional schools nor could they enroll in extra courses to catch up on graduation requirements,» Tucker said.

Although financial education isn't yet a requirement in Michigan, student participation in the credit union program can qualify as the fourth math credit required for high school graduation.

Despite her belief that «the most powerful way to learn something is to use it,» educational consultant and former Washington high school teacher Eeva Reeder says she would «have a hard time arguing in favor of [a project graduation requirement] unless it's done right.»

Lake Washington is among a handful of school districts that already have a culminating graduation requirement in place.

Approaches to and requirements of mandated community service vary widely: In Washington, D.C., 100 hours of community service are required for high school graduation; Illinois Consolidated High School District 230 requires just 24 school graduation; Illinois Consolidated High School District 230 requires just 24 School District 230 requires just 24 hours.

They did not consider that the decline of the youth labor market, which had begun in the 1930s, may have been a far more powerful «push» on increasing high - school enrollments than the «pull» of easier courses and watered - down graduation requirements.

So thoroughly has the ged entered the educational mainstream that the test has been revised to reflect changes in high - school graduation requirements and emphasis on problem - solving skills, and scholarship programs that once would have been available only to high - school graduates are now open to recipients of equivalency diplomas.

The authors of Risk believed that the system was mainly in need of internal reforms: tougher coursework and graduation requirements, higher and more flexible salaries for teachers, a longer school day and year.

The second is that there is true heterogeneity in the returns to CTE — the students who self - select do indeed benefit from the experience, but those whose course - taking decisions can be swayed by their school's graduation requirements do not benefit.

Similarly, in Revolution at the Margins, Frederick Hess reports that limited competition had little impact, but the threat of serious competition from charter schools and vouchers in 1995 - ’96 led Milwaukee Public Schools to reform with Montessori options, decentralization, tougher graduation requirements, more transparent school report cards, advertising, and empowerment of their more innovative principals, who had previously been treated with coschools and vouchers in 1995 - ’96 led Milwaukee Public Schools to reform with Montessori options, decentralization, tougher graduation requirements, more transparent school report cards, advertising, and empowerment of their more innovative principals, who had previously been treated with coSchools to reform with Montessori options, decentralization, tougher graduation requirements, more transparent school report cards, advertising, and empowerment of their more innovative principals, who had previously been treated with contempt.

The state's massive Education Reform Act of 1982 requires that school boards, starting this year, set minimum graduation requirements that include passage of a minimum - com - petency test in reading, writing, and mathematics in grade 11.

Substantial evidence from around the world has linked high - school exit exams to increased learning, but in the United States, where political pressures to relax graduation requirements have always kept the passing bar low, the evidence for their benefit has been inconclusive.

Barbara Blackburn, a counselor at George Washington High School, in Charleston, West Virginia, says picking a major and taking the requisite courses became a graduation requirement in that state ten years ago.

WHEA students must meet the state's high school graduation requirements, but most of these, including writing, science, and history, are incorporated in the projects.

These students are over 1.6 times more likely to meet a key graduation requirement, over three times more likely to be eligible for a state merit scholarship, and over 3.8 times more likely to take at least one AP exam in a charter school compared to their peers who do not receive charter lottery offers.

Rochester school officials had similar concerns about meeting the needs of struggling students, who face additional state graduation requirements in 2003.

Beginning in September 1996, Chicago increased its graduation requirements, mandating that all students complete three years of mathematics, three years of laboratory science, and one year of a foreign language, according to Cozette Buckney, the school system's chief education officer.

One education issue — high school graduation requirements — may best illustrate the successes of Arizona's P - 20 council and the obstacles that this high - powered panel faces in trying to bridge the gap between the state's precollegiate and higher education systems.

Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob, for example, report that exit exam requirements reduced high school graduation rates by about 2 percentage points, with larger effects in states with more difficult examinations, and with effects concentrated among black students and among students in districts with large percentages of students of color.

In addition, the state legislature has approved a new law that allows high school students to substitute a rigorous computer science course for a mathematics class under North Dakota graduation requirements.

For this year, they will not be used as a high school graduation requirement or in teacher evaluations.

If increases in high school graduation requirements during the last quarter of the 20th century contributed to the stagnation in graduation rates, why did rates rise during the first decade of the 21st century, a period in which high school graduation requirements were not reduced and in some states were increased?

An assumption implicit in existing state education policies is that the quality of schooling will improve sufficiently to enable high school graduation rates to rise even as graduation requirements are stiffened.

Mobilizing employers and business leaders to insist that states align high school standards, assessments and graduation requirements with the demands of postsecondary education and work and show graduates that achievement matters by using high school transcripts and exit test results in making hiring decisions.

Rethinking Pathways to High School Graduation in New York State: Forging New Ways for Students to Show Their Achievement of Standards In December 2013, the Coalition for Multiple Pathways to a Diploma released this report, prepared by Advocates for Children of New York, examining the difficulties that high stakes standardized exit exams pose for many students and addressing the need for more flexible exam requirements and assessment - based pathways to a diplomin New York State: Forging New Ways for Students to Show Their Achievement of Standards In December 2013, the Coalition for Multiple Pathways to a Diploma released this report, prepared by Advocates for Children of New York, examining the difficulties that high stakes standardized exit exams pose for many students and addressing the need for more flexible exam requirements and assessment - based pathways to a diplomIn December 2013, the Coalition for Multiple Pathways to a Diploma released this report, prepared by Advocates for Children of New York, examining the difficulties that high stakes standardized exit exams pose for many students and addressing the need for more flexible exam requirements and assessment - based pathways to a diploma.

The bill replaces AYP standards with a requirement for states to annually measure all students and individual subgroups by: (1) academic achievement as measured by state assessments; (2) for high schools, graduation rates; (3) for schools that are not high schools, a measure of student growth or another valid and reliable statewide indicator; (4) if applicable, progress in achieving English proficiency by English learners; and (5) at least one additional valid and reliable statewide indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.

If a student is not making normal progress toward completing the graduation requirements, the high school is required to notify the student and parents of alternative education experiences, including summer school in the area.

Under this program, the state now recognizes a computer science course as a science course in high school graduation requirements.

In other words, the NGSS not only don't prepare students for advanced science courses and STEM disciplines — they don't even prepare students for Ohio's current high school graduation requirements.

They are more interested in debating graduation requirements than setting up senior - year parties, said Tirzah McPherson, 16, the president of the Minneapolis student - government association, which includes about 50 students from eight high schools.