Just six states — Florida, Ohio, Louisiana, New Jersey, Texas and Virginia — still require mandatory exit exams for high school graduation. Massachusetts and New York are the latest to move away from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. High school graduates walk at their commencement at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. Louisiana is among the ...

Louisiana is one of just nine states that still require students to pass exit exams in order to graduate. Briefly last year, there was an appeals process for students. And while the change was widely ...

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.

High school exit exams are dissipating in states from coast to coast, to the praise of some and dismay of others. The pattern caps off a years-long trend that has only accelerated since the pandemic ...