High school exit exams, which are required by nearly half the states, measure skills that students are usually taught in middle school or the first year of high school. That finding, according to a ...

Q: Our state requires high-school students to take an exit exam and receive a certain score in order to graduate. Otherwise, they only get a certificate of completion. Is there any way my daughter, an ...

A decade-long push by states to make high school students pass an exit exam before getting their diplomas has stalled as politically sensitive student-failure rates contribute to a growing public ...