Many states plan to replace their current high school exit exams with tests being designed for the Common Core State Standards, according to a new study. And it appears that many of them will tie high school graduation decisions to those new assessments, a shift that could represent a big change in the high school completion landscape.
How states' exit-exam plans dovetail with the forthcoming common assessments was just one of the areas explored in the Center on Education Policy's 12th annual report on high school exit-exam policy, released today. My colleague Caralee Adams has the rundown for you over at theCollege Bound blog. She notes the ongoing trends in exit exams (tests that states require students to pass in order to earn a diploma), such as the tilt toward end-of-course exams. Half the states in the country now require students to take some form of exit exam.
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