If Pennsylvania’s new high school graduation standards had been in place in 2018 and 2019, just 35% of Philadelphia’s public school students would have been able to graduate based on their test scores ...
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 ...
While many high schoolers have myriad routes to graduation, those pathways are not all equal, and some may steer students into unexpected outcomes that limit their options early in life. As a research ...