A study released last month by a researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, revealed that California state education officials may have underreported the number of students who failed to ...

At least six states are quietly bestowing retroactive diplomas on tens of thousands of former students who never passed their state's required exit exam, sparking a heated debate about rigor, fairness ...

Upending a hallmark of California school reform, Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday signed a bill that will award diplomas to thousands of young people who failed the California High School Exit Exam in ...

SACRAMENTO — Momentum is growing to provide alternatives to California’s controversial high school exit exam, which critics say contributes to low graduation rates and discriminates against minority ...

Denying diplomas to students who fail the high school exit exam almost certainly will have to be delayed at least a year, three members of the state Board of Education said Thursday. And, it appears, ...

Since 1979, a growing number of states have required high-school students to pass exit examinations before they can receive diplomas. For nearly as long, scholars and policy makers have debated ...

A study using more than 25 years of data suggests that state exit exams—especially the more challenging ones—are leading to lower high school graduation rates. The high-stakes tests are also spurring ...

The College of Business Senior Exit Exam (COBSEE) was developed by the College of Business faculty in the Spring of 2019 and has been used every fall, spring and summer semester since Spring 2019.

This week Gov. Jerry Brown made official what has been state policy for several years: he signed a bill abolishing the California High School Exit Exam. Known by its initials as CAHSEE — and ...

Grads file in at the Patterson High centennial graduation in May. The district estimates about 10 students did not join the group solely because they did not pass the high school exit exam. Nan Austin ...

Harvey Rich is a professor of sociology at CSU Northridge. It is disappointing to see the California Legislature attempt to hide from controversy by asking for a two-year postponement of the high ...

The California High School Exit Exam would be suspended for several years and its role would be re-examined under a bill introduced last week by the chair of the Senate Education Committee. Senate ...