Sunday, July 15, 2007

Texas to End High-School Exit Exams

This audio from NPR.

Day to Day, July 10, 2007:

The Texas legislature has voted to end one of the most controversial aspects of its school accountability system: exit-level exams that students must pass to get their high-school diplomas. The change in policy won't go into effect until 2011, so students are still required to pass to graduate.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Students will still have to pass exams in order to graduate. The new law does away with a single standardized exam administered to 11th graders (they have all the way through their 12th grade year to pass it) and replaces it with 12 separate end-of-course exams that students would take each year as a course is completed.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-taks_27tex.ART.State.Edition1.440bf41.html