CALIFORNIA’S much-maligned exit exam got a boost when the California Department of Education reported that 91 percent of the class of 2006 passed the two-part state test. Only 9 percent (40,173) of ...

A new study sheds startling light on a strong connection between high school exit exams and rates of incarceration. The authors of the study, Olesya Baker and Kevin Lang, compared states with exit ...

Schools are cheating the exam system to boost their league table performance, investigators have found. Teachers have altered exam answers, inflated GCSE marks and even told pupils to copy coursework ...

Sept 17 (Reuters) - The cash-strapped State Bar of California is hoping to entice people to beta test its new bar exam by giving them a score boost on the actual test if they perform well on the trial ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A system giving students extra marks if they have suffered personal trauma is being defended by an exams authority. GCSE and A-level pupils in England are given 5% more if a parent dies close to exam ...

New York students would be able to use an exam in culinary arts, welding, accounting and other trades to meet one of their graduation requirements under a plan expected to be approved Monday by the ...