Sentences with phrase «even as graduation requirements»

As he writes, «An assumption implicit in state education policies is that the quality of schooling will improve sufficiently enough to enable high school graduation rates to rise even as graduation requirements are stiffened» (68).

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.

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However, by an even wider margin (85 %), teachers are opposed to the use of this test as a high - school graduation requirement.

That decision by the state board of education, made Jan. 12, comes as a growing number of states are grappling with whether to hold firm on high school graduation requirements even as many students fail to pass graduation exams.

Here are Zimmer's comments on the district's online credit recovery program, administered by companies including Edgenuity, which has been scrutinized for its rigor amid the district's recent announcement that its graduation has reached a record 75 percent even as the bar has been raised with the requirement that students pass the A through G, the course criteria established by UC faculty.

The actual graduation rate could be even lower as there are several other requirements to graduate.

The 1983 Nation at Risk report, which marked the start of the modern era of education reform, did not so much as mention the dropout problem even as it called for higher graduation requirements.

They achieved that even as the first class to be subject to far more rigorous graduation requirements.