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Many states picked diploma pathways over high school exit exams. Did students benefit?

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The senior at Washington state’s Toppenish High School first considered the career after he joined a STEM group in middle school. Brito’s experience is what state education leaders hoped for when they replaced the high school exit exam with multiple pathways to graduation.

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Teens Prepare for Careers With Professional Design Certifications in High School

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10th grade student and SAC intern I’m Kylah, and through K12, I’m taking a series of classes that allow me to earn high school design certifications. At the core, they all help students prepare for their future while in high school. To obtain certifications, students have to take certification exams. By: Kylah T.,

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At a grim time for math test scores, these districts buck the trend

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In addition, middle school grades and attendance are the best indicators of how a student will do in high school and whether theyre ready for college at the end of high school, a 2014 study found. One portion of that exam requires students to work without calculators. But in 2024 that number jumped to 43%.

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?Engineers, Recruiters and Professors Weigh In: Future Programmers Need Writing Skills, Too

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Coding and computer science have yet to make their way into every school curriculum in the U.S. But the country isn’t short on initiatives—such as Google’s Code Next program or the White House’s Obama era Computer Science For All campaign—which aim to change that. in electrical engineering from Santa Clara University.

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Remote learning hurt high school grad rates–ditching exit exams helped

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Until now, the story of how COVID affected who got their high school diploma went something like this: Graduation rates dipped a little for the class of 2021, but recovered the following year. Where a student lived and what policies their school followed during the pandemic affected how likely they were to graduate from high school.

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High school computer science classes might expand in Michigan–will that address equity issues?

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In her two years of high school at Dearborn Public Schools’ Virtual K-12 school, rising junior Weaam AlAliyi has already learned about computer programming, understanding algorithms, and data analysis in three computer science courses. The classes would have to be aligned with Michigan’s computer science standards.

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Don’t wait to start helping students ace their AP exams

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Students across the country take AP exams in hopes of earning high exam scores that help them opt out of college prerequisites and ultimately save money on tuition. Give students as much practice as possible answering questions that look like the AP exam. Start talking about the test on Day 1.