Sentences with phrase «increased high school graduation requirements»

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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.

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.

Previous waves of reform had focused on inputs, intentions, and regulation: boost the credentials and pay of teachers; increase course requirements for high - school graduation; mandate lower class sizes; etc..

By 1986, 45 states and the District of Columbia had raised high - school graduation requirements, 42 had increased math requirements, and 34 had boosted science requirements.

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.

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?

This line of reasoning has two parts: first, requirements for earning a high school diploma increased, and second, the expanded requirements had a negative impact on the graduation rate of vulnerable groups.

Previous waves of reform had focused on inputs, intentions, and regulation: Boost the credentials and pay of teachers; increase course requirements for high - school graduation; mandate lower class sizes; etc..

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.

The authors conclude that these increased math skills «may have reduced the learning challenges [for vulnerable students] of completing high school graduation requirements.»

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

As states implemented increased course requirements for high school graduation, especially in math and science, the number of students taking classes in these subjects went up by 69 percent and 60 percent, respectively, between 1987 — 88 and 2007 — 08.

The major planks of Mr. Dupree's improvement strategy have been the magnet programs in each elementary school, a redesign of graduation requirements, and increased rigor in all high school classes through the Cambridge International curriculum.

High school graduation rates did increase, but favorable demographic changes and the easing of requirements for receiving a diploma may have helped those improvements along (Ravitch, 2013).

The policy solution that has garnered the most momentum to improve civics in recent years is a standard that requires high school students to pass the U.S. citizenship exam before graduation.6 According to this analysis, 17 states have taken this path.7 Yet, critics of a mandatory civics exam argue that the citizenship test does nothing to measure comprehension of the material8 and creates an additional barrier to high school graduation.9 Other states have adopted civics as a requirement for high school graduation, provided teachers with detailed civics curricula, offered community service as a graduation requirement, and increased the availability of Advance Placement (AP) U.S. government classes.10