High-stakes testing: pros, cons and future of

My state has thrown out its old math standards, and with it the high-stakes high school test tied to those standards. It adopted Common Core standards, and now a lot of people want to ditch those standards.



I thought states were required to have a high school exit exam, but apparently that's not true.



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This 10th installment of CEP’s annual study of high school exit exams and other assessments finds that fewer states are requiring students to pass a high school exit exam, though testing in other areas has increased.

The line about fewer states requiring exit exams tells me it's not a federal requirement. Per NCLB, I think there would still be standards-based testing but that would be to measure a school's performance, and perhaps affect teacher pay. But I'm not sure I'm interpreting things correctly.



Anyway, I'm curious what people think: Should there be any kind of HS exit exam? Why or why not?

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