Last year, half of the states required students to take exit exams before receiving their high school diplomas—about the same amount as the previous year, although the combination has changed slightly ...

Sept. 9, 2003 -- -- Jeff Orlinsky knows what he doesn't want to see in his 10th-grade biology class — students with no motivation to even try to pass the class, because they already feel there is no ...

For a 16-year-old, Iris Padilla's resume looks pretty good: Not only is she already a senior close to completing all the credits needed to graduate from Richmond High, she's president of a Latin ...

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 ...

THE FRONT page article featuring the young man seeking a football scholarship, but unable to pass the math portion of his exit exam to earn his diploma, and joining a lawsuit, brings so many questions ...

THIS MONTH, hundreds of thousands of California high school sophomores and juniors sat down down to take yet another crack at passing the state's grueling three-part high school exit exam. It is the ...