This article was originally published in Florida Phoenix. Concerned about lowering standards in Florida’s public high schools, the state House on Thursday voted to stick with the original requirements ...

If this year’s new 10th-grade ISTEP math exam had been used to determine graduation eligibility – like the Algebra 1 End of Course Assessment it's replacing – only a third of test-takers statewide ...

On Nov. 5, Massachusetts voters will decide whether to keep the state’s two-decade-old state test graduation requirement. The ballot measure, Question 2, would repeal the need for students to pass the ...

When East Brunswick High School gave standardized tests this spring, hundreds of sophomores skipped their English exam with confidence. The teens had previously passed the PARCC English test for ninth ...

The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) announced today that 75 percent of Minnesota 10th graders met the state’s new, more rigorous, reading graduation requirement. MDE also announced that 71 ...

In 1983, “A Nation at Risk” focused political decisionmakers on the necessity of reframing public education into an accountability model designed to provide minimum standards of achievement. By 2001, ...

Three out of four California 10th-graders have passed the high school graduation test they now need to earn a diploma -- but tens of thousands failed and will have to try again, state schools chief ...

About one in six North Carolina ninth graders last year fell off track to graduate high school on time, double the usual number. That’s according to new retention data from the North Carolina ...

For the first time in two decades, Massachusetts sophomores took the MCAS without needing it to graduate. The result: they did much worse than last year, and some state officials and others believe ...