Graduation Requirements
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
When Educational Equity Descends Into Educational Nihilism
Schools need to buckle down to engage and educate kids—not lower (or eliminate) expectations in the name of “equity.”
College & Workforce Readiness
Data
Data: How Is Coronavirus Changing States' Graduation Requirements?
Track what states are doing to ease the educational disruptions facing the high school class of 2020.
Student Well-Being & Movement
The Lost Senior Year: Credits, Proms, Sports All in Jeopardy
The coronavirus closures are shaping a disruptive end to a tumultuous academic career for the Class of 2020.
Assessment
Which States Required an Exam to Graduate in 2016-17?
An Education Week survey finds that fewer states are requiring high school students to pass a test in order to graduate.
Assessment
Which States Required Students to Take the SAT or ACT in 2016-17?
A growing number of states are requiring high school students to take the SAT or ACT, according to Education Week's annual testing survey.
Assessment
Which States Were Using PARCC or Smarter Balanced in 2016-17?
Twenty states and the District of Columbia will administer the tests designed for the common-core standards in 2016-17, an Education Week survey finds.
States
'Action Civics' Enlists Students in Hands-On Democracy
An activist brand of civics instruction is gaining champions and a few critics in the nation's schools.
Teaching
Can 'Capstone Projects' Deepen Learning for High School Seniors?
Educators in Oakland, Calif., say the yearlong graduation projects are helping students master oral, writing, and research skills that will serve them well for whatever comes next.
College & Workforce Readiness
New Jersey Court Strikes Down PARCC Test as Grad Requirement
The state is one of about a dozen that require students to pass a test in order to graduate from high school.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
The Tangled Web: The High School Diploma, College and Career Readiness Standards and Career and Technical Education
Marc Tucker looks at how low bars for college and career readiness standards, career and technical education and high school graduation requirements are leaving U.S. students two and three years behind their peers in top-performing systems.
Science
New Mexico To Count Computer Science as Graduation Requirement
The state's education secretary says the move will help ensure students' preparedness for the "21st century marketplace."
College & Workforce Readiness
High School Diploma Criteria Fall Short, Study Finds
An analysis finds that, in most states, students must exceed high school diploma requirements in order to be admitted to a public, four-year college in their state.
College & Workforce Readiness
How High School Diploma Requirements Fall Short of College Admission Standards
A new study documents a tricky trap for students: the gap between what high schools require for graduation and what state universities require for admission.
College & Workforce Readiness
In Wake of Grad-Rate Scandal, D.C. Projects Sharp Decline in Diplomas
In the wake of a major graduation-rate scandal, the District of Columbia school system reports a big anticipated drop in this year's high school graduation rate.