While 31 states use or are planning to implement some form of high school exit exam, a study finds some states are also dropping the practice. The report by the Washington-based Center on Education ...

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Critics of high-stakes testing have argued that public high school exit exams cause many students, particularly minority-group members, to drop out in frustration without gaining a diploma that would ...

Two new projects have been launched to examine the quality of high school exit exams and their effects on students. The American Diploma Project, a joint venture by four national education groups and ...

High-school exit examinations are becoming increasingly popular in the United States, with a “major impact” on how students are taught, an advocacy group concluded in a report released this morning.

In ordering Connecticut to overhaul its education system, a state judge suggested an exit exam requirement for students to graduate from high school. It's a strategy some states first implemented in ...