September 3, 2004
High-School Exams May Affect Colleges
About 70 percent of American public-high-school students -- and 80 percent of minority students -- will be required to take state exit examinations as graduation requirements by 2009, according to a report issued in August by the Center on Education Policy. The trend could have consequences for colleges whose enrollments are drawn largely from those pools of students.
But little is known about the long-term effects of the exams, center officials said, and more study of those
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