State officials are discussing whether to postpone enforcement of California’s new high school graduation exam because so many students are failing the test. Less than half of the state’s current 11th ...

Many states across the county are changing their high school graduation requirements. Students in Mississippi, for example, no longer are required to pass all their final tests in order to receive a ...

High school exit exams, which are required by nearly half the states, measure skills that students are usually taught in middle school or the first year of high school. That finding, according to a ...

Two states require that students take independently-administered civics tests to graduate high school. Eight have comprehensive exit exams. And a vast majority require students to earn credits in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. High school exit exams are dissipating in states from coast to coast, to the praise of some and dismay of others. The pattern caps ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE — Thanks to a new law, high school seniors at Lake Tahoe Unified School District no longer face an exit exam requirement. Gov. Jerry Brown, on Oct. 7, signed a bill that suspends the ...