[Lmresearch] New CEP report--State High School Exit Exams: A Challenging Year

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           State High School Exit Exams: A Challenging Year

            Nancy Kober, Dalia Zabala, Naomi Chudowsky, Victor Chudowsky, Keith Gayler, and Jennifer McMurrer 

            School year 2005-06 was a time of serious challenges to state exit examinations-tests students must pass to receive a high school diploma. In California and Arizona-two states that were withholding diplomas from high school seniors for the first time based on exam performance-courts weighed the constitutionality and fairness of exit exams, as thousands of high school seniors waited to see if they would graduate with the rest of their class. California students at risk of not graduating breathed a sigh of relief when a superior court overturned the exit exam requirement, only to see it reinstated by the state Supreme Court two weeks later. In several states, policymakers debated whether to stick to their plans to withhold diplomas from students who failed exit exams, whether to exempt students with disabilities or students learning English from having to pass the exams, or whether to create or expand alternate paths to graduation for students struggling to pass the exams.

            Since 2002, the Center on Education Policy (CEP), an independent nonprofit organization, has been conducting a comprehensive study of state high school exit exams. This is the Center's fifth annual report on this study. The information in this report comes primarily from our survey of all 25 states that currently have or are phasing in mandatory exit exams, and focuses mostly on changes that have occurred since our 2005 report, State High School Exit Exams: States Try Harder but Gaps Persist.

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