Q: Our state requires high-school students to take an exit exam and receive a certain score in order to graduate. Otherwise, they only get a certificate of completion. Is there any way my daughter, an ...

While the state’s standardized testing program is being revamped during the transition to the new Common Core State Standards, the fate of the high school exit exam – the one test students must pass – ...

As high schools rethink graduation requirements, a growing number are moving away from requiring all students to pass a comprehensive test.

States will need to revisit or even abandon high school exit exams in the very near future or risk one of two potentially disastrous outcomes: either preventing a large percentage of students from ...

The current overhaul of California’s student testing program is skipping, for now, the California High School Exit Exam, the one test that’s truly high stakes. If students don’t pass, they don’t ...

The California high school exit exam is dead. The short and purposeless life of the exam began in 2001 when it was first administered to ninth-grade volunteers. It ended last week when Gov. Jerry ...