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• Laura Wilson Phelan (Ward 1) highlighted the tremendous work of our #DCGradReqs Task Force as a panelist on a National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) webinar focused on equity in high school graduation requirements.

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

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?

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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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.»

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 hohigh school graduation; Illinois Consolidated High School District 230 requires just 24 school graduation; Illinois Consolidated High School District 230 requires just 24 hoHigh 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.

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.

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.

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.

(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.)

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 diplHigh 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 diplhigh 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.

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.

Although a majority of school administrators say the arts are a vital part of the public school curriculum, fewer than half the nation's high schools include them in graduation requirements, a federal survey has found.

• High - school graduation requirements should be strengthened so that all students acquire a solid foundation in five «new basics»: English, mathematics, science, social studies, and computer science.

For example, states with high - stakes high - school graduation requirements must find effective ways to intervene in high schools with high failure and / or dropout rates, even if the percentage of students passing the test increases significantly each year.

Ohio's graduation requirement call for a minimum of three units of science during high school, one in life sciences, one in physical science, and one of more advanced science.

The article looks at alternatives to standardized tests as high school graduation requirements, profiling the East Side Community High School in New York City which has replaced standardized tests with a combination of projects and oral presentations which it considers more authentic as assessmehigh school graduation requirements, profiling the East Side Community High School in New York City which has replaced standardized tests with a combination of projects and oral presentations which it considers more authentic as assessschool graduation requirements, profiling the East Side Community High School in New York City which has replaced standardized tests with a combination of projects and oral presentations which it considers more authentic as assessmeHigh School in New York City which has replaced standardized tests with a combination of projects and oral presentations which it considers more authentic as assessSchool in New York City which has replaced standardized tests with a combination of projects and oral presentations which it considers more authentic as assessments.

Last year then N.J. Education Commissioner Chris Cerf had said passing the new PARCC tests in high school would not be a requirement for graduation for at least three years.

Passing the new PARCC state tests in language arts and math will be one of three options high school students can use to meet the state requirement for graduation during the three - year transition period starting with the Class of 2016.

Education reform in the trenches: Increased academic course taking in high schools with lower achieving students in states with higher graduation requirements.

Thus, students from both of those states, arriving as high school seniors in a state with graduation requirements, posed problems for local administrators.

Finally, the Committee supports high school graduation requirements that ensure all students graduate with exposure to the full range of Kentucky's higher academic standards and with experiences that put them on a strong path toward success in college and careers.

High School Promotion and Graduation Requirements (also available in Spanish) This fact sheet lists criteria for promotion from 9th, 10th, and 11th grades, as well as high school graduation requirements (credits and Regents exaHigh School Promotion and Graduation Requirements (also available in Spanish) This fact sheet lists criteria for promotion from 9th, 10th, and 11th grades, as well as high school graduation requirements (credits and Regents eSchool Promotion and Graduation Requirements (also available in Spanish) This fact sheet lists criteria for promotion from 9th, 10th, and 11th grades, as well as high school graduation requirements (credits and RegenGraduation Requirements (also available in Spanish) This fact sheet lists criteria for promotion from 9th, 10th, and 11th grades, as well as high school graduation requirements (credits and RegRequirements (also available in Spanish) This fact sheet lists criteria for promotion from 9th, 10th, and 11th grades, as well as high school graduation requirements (credits and Regents exahigh school graduation requirements (credits and Regents eschool graduation requirements (credits and Regengraduation requirements (credits and Regrequirements (credits and Regents exams).

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 exHigh 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 eGraduation 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 - stakesRequirements 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 egraduation requirements and made several recommendations [PDF] for the commission to consider as alternatives to high - stakesrequirements and made several recommendations [PDF] for the commission to consider as alternatives to high - stakes exit exhigh - stakes exit exams.

Rethinking Pathways to High School Graduation in New York State: Forging New Ways for Students to Show Their Achievement of Standards On December 12, 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 diplHigh School Graduation in New York State: Forging New Ways for Students to Show Their Achievement of Standards On December 12, 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 diplhigh stakes standardized exit exams pose for many students and addressing the need for more flexible exam requirements and assessment - based pathways to a diploma.

From the time they enroll, we can provide newcomer students and their families with information — in their home language — about the grade - based promotion system, high school graduation requirements, standardized testing, college applications, high school exit exams, and the process of class programming.

«There is no state in the U.S. that has made the high school graduation requirement the same as a college - readiness requirement,» said David Steiner, executive director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy.

Texas's rigorous curriculum requirements as a default curriculum for all students and the role of the post-secondary system in setting high school graduation standards.