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Reports of academic dishonesty — within prestigious universities, on high school exit exams, by authors of bestselling books — have been widespread this fall.

The report also addresses a second, widely used accountability policy: high - school exit exams that hold students responsible for meeting a set of content standards.

The California state school board has voted unanimously to delay its mandatory high school exit exam.

High school seniors in California are once again required to pass the state's exit exam to receive a diploma this year.

Colorado will look at writing, science, and ACT results; Florida will add writing and science; Georgia will include science and social studies for grades 3 - 8 and a whole suite of exit exams for high school; Kentucky and Oklahoma add science, social studies, and writing; and Massachusetts and Tennessee will both add science to the mix.

John Bishop makes the case for requiring high schoolers to pass curriculum - based exams in order to graduate, pointing out that students learn more and schools become more focused whenever these exit exams are in place.

In Massachusetts and Virginia, where students are tested in key grades and will soon need to pass exit exams to graduate from high school, Cassandras predicted all kinds of pernicious results.

The evidence we have reviewed suggests that high school exit exam programs, as currently implemented in the United States, decrease the rate of high school graduation without increasing achievement.

The committee touts the possibility of alternative incentives to exit exams: «Several experiments with providing incentives for graduation in the form of rewards, while keeping graduation standards constant, suggest that such incentives might be used to increase high school completion.»

The only external standardized test in Finland is the national Matriculation Examination, a high - stakes exam that determines college readiness and which all students are required to pass in order to graduate high school exit and enter university.

It doesn't tell us that California has bad elementary education, or that exit exams are useless, or that we should lower our achievement standards for high school graduates.

That year, at least 25 percent of all tested students in a high school were required to pass the 10th - grade exit exam in each subject in order for the school to receive an Acceptable rating.

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 schHigh 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 schhigh school.

High schools face a fundamental tension between preparing students for the high school exit exam and preparing them for collHigh schools face a fundamental tension between preparing students for the high school exit exam and preparing them for collhigh school exit exam and preparing them for college.

No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the proliferation of high school exit exams, the success of school choice initiatives, and a dozen other smaller if more bitter battles, education has become one of the hottest policy topics in Washington.

Hanushek examines the report's two main conclusions: a) that test - based incentive programs «have not increased student achievement enough to bring the United States close to the level of the highest achieving countries;» and b) that high school exit exam programs «decrease the rate of high school graduation without increasing achievement.»

A federal judge this month refused to delay enforcement of his previous ruling that students who are still learning English can earn a high school diploma even if they have not passed the state's high school exit exam.

States Try Harder, but Gaps Persist: State High School Exit Exams 2005 (August 2005) Pay Now or Pay Later: The Hidden Costs of High School Exit Exams (May 2004)

In 2004 the CEP published its largest study of these exams, «Pay Now or Pay Later: The Hidden Costs of High School Exit Exams.&rexams, «Pay Now or Pay Later: The Hidden Costs of High School Exit Exams.&rExams.»

It assembled panels of educators and asked them what education services, in their professional judgment, a typical school district would need to reach two benchmarks: the current level of student performance on exit exams and a higher level of student performance that represents a desired goal.

The cost to states for designing and administering high school exit exams is modest compared with the «rapidly escalating» costs school districts face as they try to raise student performance on the exams, concludes a report released last week.

The report also found that 28 states require high school seniors to pass an exit exam — a test that requires students to achieve minimum competency — to receive a high school diploma.

Students in the high school class of 2004 must pass a state exit exam to graduate, and Santa Ana needs to start preparing students now, Mijares adds.

The legislation includes the nation's first statewide peer - review program for teachers and California's first - ever high school exit exam.

Staffers also conduct summer, fall, and spring home visits between and during the sophomore and junior years to students who are at risk of not graduating because of deficiencies in course credits, the possibility of failing the state high school exit exam (a condition of graduation), or poor grades.

In the 2006 — 7 school year, MSAT, CAT, and Envision's third campus, Metropolitan Arts & Tech High School (Metro), outperformed the state average on the percentage of 10th - grade students passing the California High School Exitschool year, MSAT, CAT, and Envision's third campus, Metropolitan Arts & Tech High School (Metro), outperformed the state average on the percentage of 10th - grade students passing the California High School ExitSchool (Metro), outperformed the state average on the percentage of 10th - grade students passing the California High School ExitSchool Exit Exam.

The flaws that were recently exposed in New York state's high school exit exam may be generating a big enough backlash against the program to give its critics the ammunition they need to lessen the stakes on the tests.

Students with disabilities in Alaska will be allowed to use a range of accommodations on the state's high school exit exam and still be able to receive high school diplomas, under a legal settlement announced last week.

Massachusetts education officials have released data that they hope will counteract what they say is a false public perception that most students in the class of 2003 who haven't yet passed the state's high school exit exams are members of minority groups or come from poor families.

The report by the nonprofit research organization urges, among other recommendations, that states align high school exit exams with entry - level college coursework, that educators at the high school and college levels collaborate more, and that high schools prepare students for the independence they will experience in college.

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Editor's Note: Since this video was filmed in 2001, the Urban Academy has become a member of the New York Performance Assessment Consortium, a coalition of public schools in New York State that uses a system of performance - based assessment in lieu of high - stakes exit exams.

According to court papers, the boy began taking college courses at age 7, passed the state's high school exit exam at 9, and started attending the University of California, Los Angeles, at 13.

NCLB did not include such a requirement, and according to a September 2012 study of the Center on Education Policy, only about half of states (26) on their own require that students pass state high - school exit exams to earn a diploma.

Ms. Reed, a Republican, was first elected in 1992 and supervised the implementation of a more rigorous, college - preparatory curriculum and a controversial high school exit exam.

Their quarrel centers on high school exit exams: the tests that an increasing number of states are requiring students to pass before they can graduate from high school.

High school exit exams do not significantly affect dropout rates, according to a study released last week by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

This is very different from the MCT - based accountability systems of the 1970s, under which students were held accountable, for example, for passing a high school exit exam if they were to receive a regular high school diploma.

From the Common Core State Standards to high school exit exams to state testing and student achievement, it can all be found here.

There are exceptions, of course, in the form of high school exit exams, end - of - course exams, and grade promotion requirements.

• Even places that have clung to statewide exit exams as a condition of high school graduation tend to get cold feet when reality hits — and then waive, defer, or offer workarounds such that not too many kids are actually denied diplomas just because they fail the test.

One high - school valedictorian failed the graduate exit exam and then failed it some more — five times all told — and this was the school's top student.

Two new projects have been launched to examine the quality of high school exit exams and their effects on students.

And his proposals for a school rating system and high school exit exam have been ratified by the Senate.

We look to the end - of - week spelling test, the end - of - quarter biology exam, even the high school exit exam, to tell us whether our children are developing the skills and learning the material they'll need to succeed both in and out of school.

When Bishop examined the effects of high - school exit exams, one traditional form of external accountability, on intrinsic motivation by comparing whether students subjected to this approach engaged in less reading for pleasure or were more likely to associate learning with rote memorization, he found no evidence that accountability undermined natural curiosity and even found some evidence of the opposite.

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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.

There seems to be no consensus about whether the across - the - board increases in U.S. graduation rates reported by the federal government last week are the result of No Child Left Behind - era accountability mechanisms or the data - based decisionmaking stressed under the Obama administration, more early - warning systems to identify potential dropouts, or fewer high school exit exams.

And he sent back a proposed law that would have allowed schools to use «alternative assessments» for students who had failed the state's high school exit exam.