Monday’s big New York Times article, As School Exit Tests Prove Tough, States Ease Standards, describes why we need to develop better accountability solutions for our nation’s high schools:
The real pattern in states has been that the standards are lowered so much that the exams end up not benefiting students who pass them while still [...]
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Moving Beyond High School Exit Exams
This Week’s Sign of the Apocalypse
North Carolina has figured out how to raise the number of adults with a high school diploma:
Because of a retroactive change in state graduation requirements, some students who didn’t pass the state competency tests as far back as 1981 may now get a high-school diploma.
In Forsyth County, an average of 30 to 40 students in [...]
Updated: Dear Iowa Republicans,
I get what you’re trying to do. Really I do. Implementing statewide graduation standards backed by high school exit exams sounds like a great idea in theory, but it just doesn’t work that well in practice.
There’s ample evidence from other states that the tests try to have it both ways: they get (rightly) criticized for [...]
If You Pay Them They Will Pass
Seriously? Baltimore is putting aside nearly a $million to pay students to pass the Maryland state high school exit exams. This has got to be the worst example of how to engage students in their education, if that’s in fact the point, although it was easy enough to find students who support this idea. Of [...]
Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed 
College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
03/19/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on college graduation rates and the NCAA Tournament in the Detroit Free Press.
03/19/10 | Linda Perlstein links to Education Sector's "College- and Career-Ready" event.
03/17/10 | Ben Miller's column on graduation rates and NCAA Tournament eligibility is mentioned on The Wall Street Journal's The Daily Fix.
03/17/10 | Kevin Carey's critique of Diane Ravitch's latest book is quoted in Doublethink's Conventional Folly blog.
03/15/10 | Ben Miller pens an op-ed for US News & World Report on using graduation rates to determine NCAA Tournament eligibility.