{"id":1412,"date":"2010-01-25T13:13:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T19:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2010-01-25T13:18:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T19:18:12","slug":"lowering-the-bar-for-exit-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2010\/01\/25\/lowering-the-bar-for-exit-exams\/","title":{"rendered":"lowering the bar for exit exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/12\/education\/12exit.html?pagewanted=1&amp;hp\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a> recently spoke to sociologist John Robert Warren about the effects of high school exit exams, now adopted in 26 states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People who have studied the exams, which affect two-thirds of the nation\u2019s public school students, say they often fall short of officials\u2019 ambitious goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real pattern in states has been that the standards are lowered so much that the exams end up not benefiting students who pass them while still hurting the students who fail them,\u201d said John Robert Warren, an expert on exit exams and a professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe exams are just challenging enough to reduce the graduation rate,\u201d Professor Warren added, \u201cbut not challenging enough to have measurable consequences for how much students learn or for how prepared they are for life after high school.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/12\/education\/12exit.html?pagewanted=1&amp;hp\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times recently spoke to sociologist John Robert Warren about the effects of high school exit exams, now adopted in 26 states: People who have studied the exams, which affect two-thirds of the nation\u2019s public school students, say they often fall short of officials\u2019 ambitious goals. \u201cThe real pattern in states has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}