Top-down mandates futile when schools have ‘little incentive to improve instruction’
A conservative policy group is cheering the end of “exit exams” in Washington state, saying the additional graduation requirement was full of holes and didn’t serve its purpose.
“Policymakers promised this requirement would raise standards and make the earning of a high school diploma a meaningful achievement,” Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center told The College Fix in an email. “This did not happen.”Washington is the latest state to repeal its high school graduation exam, and it was a bipartisan affair. Not a single member of Legislature, where […]
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