"Graduation standards" refers to the specific requirements or criteria that students must meet in order to successfully complete their education and receive a diploma or degree.
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With teacher support, students determine their own curriculum and decide how they will
meet graduation standards through seminars or independent projects.
The introduction of high - school
graduation standards led to reductions in educational attainment that were particularly concentrated among minority students.
Each student receives guidance about how to design projects that incorporate personal interests and make sure their performance
meets graduation standards.
SANTA FE, N.M. — One of New Mexico's biggest school districts is mulling scrapping the letter grade «D» to
raise graduation standards amid similar changes in other school districts across the country.
For the past year in almost every available venue, opponents of high stakes standardized assessments of public school student achievement have been droning on about the perceived oppression of the Texas public school accountability system, which has been rated by national education organizations as having produced the best high school
graduation standard in the country when fully implemented.
With the dilution
of graduation standards, these numbers are unlikely to improve, adding to budget and social pressures, but, more ominously, short - changing our kids even more, as they struggle to find postsecondary success either in college or the demanding 21st century workplace.
The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday retreated from new, more
rigorous graduation standards out of concern that huge numbers of students would fail to earn diplomas.
As Minnesota nears its target date for adopting performance -
based graduation standards, lawmakers are pushing for new conditions that that could set back the program.
Ostensibly, these alternatives would require that the student meets the same Common
Core graduation standards, but just by means other than just passing the Common Core tests.
Roller worries more about young people being able to feed their families than
about graduation standards that don't keep up with the economy.
And it lowers the grades of states that have embraced privatization and rely on testing to
set graduation standards, promotion standards and teacher accountability.
The ruling overturns Superior Court Judge Thomas Moukawsher, who had ordered the state to submit proposed reforms to the court to revamp its formula for providing education aid to cities and towns, develop a statewide high school
graduation standard such as a test, make eighth - graders show they have acquired the skills to move on to high school, and replace what he called a weak statewide system of teacher evaluation and compensation.
A leading figure in Minnesota's long - running effort to create
tougher graduation standards has resigned, charging that Gov. Arne Carlson is retreating from key parts of the idea.
Likewise, state officials concerned about college completion would be prodded to ensure that their high schools produce college - ready graduates, maybe
boosting graduation standards accordingly.
In Los Angeles,
when graduation standards were raised and it looked like many students would be denied high school diplomas, the school district turned to online credit recovery courses to get the students back on track.
The state board of education, which began studying
upgrading graduation standards three years ago, also approved the establishment of a «certificate of merit» for students who take an extra year of science and earn foreign - language credit.
At least a portion of the graduating class — comprising half of the students who started their senior year — were onstage only because their teachers bent the rules
governing graduation standards.
They have targeted strategies to get strong teachers and leaders into high - poverty / high - minority schools and can swiftly remove ineffective teachers; they are closing low - performing schools and offering high - quality choices through both traditional and charter schools; and they have adopted
demanding graduation standards and assessments so that students leave high school capable of attending college and ready for careers.
At Edwin O. Smith High School in Storrs, CT, the faculty has partnered with the Center for Collaborative Education to develop a set of authentic performance tasks that will serve as the assessments for student success in demonstrating performance on their cross-curricular and subject
level graduation standards.
Skeptics could argue that positive effects on graduation and postsecondary attendance could be illusorily if schools are setting
lower graduation standards and not actually preparing their students for college or employment.
With the nationwide efforts to
raise graduation standards and the increasing use of standardized testing, the idea of basing promotion and graduation decisions on portfolios of students» work has fallen out of fashion as swiftly as slide rules gave way to calculators.
Creating a Formula for Success: Why English Language Learner Students Are Dropping Out of School, and How to Increase Graduation Rates This report analyzes the educational outcomes of English Language Learners (ELLs) since the implementation of new
graduation standards in New York State and assesses the implementation of promised improvements in the education provided to ELLs.
Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more
rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.
«The state attorney general made the right decision to appeal the part of the judge's ruling that imposed mandates on everything from determining how teachers are evaluated to denying education to severely disabled children to requiring
new graduation standards,» said Sheila Cohen, the union president.
Twinfield Union School Students can design their own learning experiences that lead to the authentic demonstrations of learning of their proficiency -
based graduation standards.
Obstensively, these alternatives would require that the student meets the same Common
Core graduation standards, but just by means other than just passing the Common Core tests.
To investigate the claim that course requirements and basic - skills tests may dampen the efforts of high - ability students, I analyzed whether higher
graduation standards did indeed encourage students to take more courses in the core academic areas.
In this Spotlight, see how schools are helping students reach their post-graduation goals, keeping English - language Learners on track to graduate, and committing to higher
graduation standards for all students.
Instead of setting high expectations for student learning and holding students and educators responsible for meeting or exceeding them, we've
eased graduation standards and made them optional.
Freshmen entering Florida high schools this fall will need higher scores on alternative tests to
meet graduation standards in math and language arts, under a rule adopted by the state Board of Education on Wednesday.
Presenters at the event both defined critical indicators for college readiness as supported by the research and described efforts in California, Arkansas and Indiana, to create statewide high
school graduation standards more closely aligned with expectations for success in postsecondary education and work.
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