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  New CEP Report: State High School Exit Exams In this new Center on Education Policy (CEP) report, State High School Exit Exams: A Move Toward End-of-Course Exams, finds that high school exit exams continue to have a significant impact on American education. By 2012, 74 percent of the nation’s public school students in 26 states will be required to pass an exit exam to graduate, according to the report. In a shift from recent testing policy, however, more of these students will be required to take end-of-course exams as states move away from comprehensive and minimum competency tests, the report adds... The report also found that only one state (Washington) has added a state-mandated exit exam since 2007 and three more states (Arkansas, Maryland, and Oklahoma) will do so by 2012. The impact of exit exams is most striking for students of color. Today, 75 percent of students of color attend public schools in states that require exit exams to graduate; that percentage will rise to 84 percent by 2012. For more information on this Center on Education Policy report, click on the URL link listed below. The 26 state reports covered in CEP's report are: Alabama | Alaska | Arizona | Arkansas | California | Florida | Georgia | Idaho | Indiana | Louisiana | Maryland | Massachusetts | Minnesota | Mississippi | Nevada | New Jersey | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | Ohio | Oklahoma | South Carolina | Tennessee | Texas | Virginia | Washington URL: http://www.cep-dc.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=document_ext.showDocumentByID&nodeID=1&DocumentID=244 |
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