Sentences with phrase «exam requirements reduced»

One study found that exit exam requirements reduced high school graduation rates by about 2 percentage points, with larger effects concentrated among black students.

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.

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The Coalition Makes Recommendations Regarding the Board of Regents» Testing Reduction Report In May 2015, the Coalition wrote two letters [PDF] urging the Chancellor and Board of Regents to address modifications to the Regents exam requirements as part of their report on reducing state testing and improving test quality.

companies (the requirements for alternative teachers beyond knowledge of their subjects, if any, being unspecified, here), then failing to pass the content exam and / or, in the case of the few who actually find jobs, discovering that it's an exhausting job, requires long hours and tremendous dedication, and at least a couple of years to be any good at it, most of whom will blow right back out of what used to be a «profession» but will now be reduced to the status of a «trade.»

Efforts to reduce the number of end - of - course exams were rebuffed, but there were minor changes made to the process used to determine if a student has performed at sufficiently high levels on the collection of mandated end - of - course exams required to meet graduation requirements.