Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was originally published in Stateline. Jill Norton, an education policy adviser in Massachusetts, has a teenage son ...

Two states require that students take independently-administered civics tests to graduate high school. Eight have comprehensive exit exams. And a vast majority require students to earn credits in ...

Many states picked diploma pathways over high school exit exams. Did students benefit? When 18-year-old Edgar Brito thinks about what he’ll do in the future, mechanical engineering is high on the list ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. High school graduates walk at their commencement at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. Louisiana is among the ...