Sentences with phrase «service requirement for high school graduation»

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Maryland's chief state school officer last week asked his board of education to establish a new kind of statewide graduation requirement for high - school students — 100 hours of community service.

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High schools could make peer tutoring a graduation requirement for all students, perhaps three hours a week for one semester, as part of a community service program.

Counseling services for middle level and high school students that provide information and assistance about the requirements for high school graduation, college admission and financial assistance, and career success

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