A decade-long push by states to make high school students pass an exit exam before getting their diplomas has stalled as politically sensitive student-failure rates contribute to a growing public ...

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 ...

This year's high school seniors in California will be the first in the state to take a final test in order to graduate. The exit exam is daunting for many students, and the requirement has run into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Jersey is among just seven states that still require students to pass a test to graduate. (Getty Images) Jill Norton, an ...

California should delay its exit-exam requirement for students with disabilities, recommends a draft research report that state legislators requested. “High School Exit Examination for Pupils With ...

Massachusetts used to require a standardized statewide test called the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, or MCAS, but officials are going back to the drawing board after residents voted ...

It's graduation time in California high schools, and "certificate" time for the 47,000 students who did NOT pass the state's new high school exit exam. That's creating some awkwardness at commencement ...

A group of 10 high school students and their parents filed a lawsuit Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court challenging the controversial exit exam nearly all California public high school students ...

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 ...

SMMUSD HDQTRS — Tenth graders in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District trounced their state and county counterparts in a high-stakes test that determines whether or not they can receive a ...