High school exit exams
The Center on Education Policy has an exhaustive new report on high school exit exams. You can read the full report on their Web site.
To see what they have to say about North Carolina's graduation standards, click here.
North Carolina will have new exit standards, starting with freshmen who enter high school in 2006-07. Students in that class will have to pass End-of-Course tests in Algebra I, English I, civics, U.S. history and biology in order to earn a diploma.