High school graduates walk at their commencement at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. Louisiana is among the half dozen states that still require exit exams to graduate from high ...

California has decided that any student in the past 11 years who met all high school requirements except passing the exit exam can get a diploma anyway. You heard that right: A bill signed Wednesday ...

California’s high school exit exam is keeping disproportionate numbers of girls and non-whites from graduating, even when they are just as capable as white boys, according to a study released Tuesday.

High school exit exams have become a common fixture in American high school life. By 2006, 22 states had exit exams - and because larger states are more likely to have exams, approximately two-thirds ...

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 ...

SACRAMENTO — Momentum is growing to provide alternatives to California’s controversial high school exit exam, which critics say contributes to low graduation rates and discriminates against minority ...

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 ...

High school graduates walk at their commencement at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. Louisiana is among the half dozen states that still require exit exams to graduate from high ...

Grads file in at the Patterson High centennial graduation in May. The district estimates about 10 students did not join the group solely because they did not pass the high school exit exam. Nan Austin ...