[HPFGU-OTChatter] British School System

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

At 3:42 PM +0000 7/3/03, linlou43 wrote:
>
>    I live in the state of Massachusetts and as of the 2002/2003
>school year the passing of a standardized test is a graduation
>requirement. I have also heard of this being instituted in other
>parts of the country.

I teach in Texas, where we've had an exit-level test for forever and 
we just changed the format (so it's now much harder).

Different states do exit testing differently, but in most of the 
systems in the US, the exit test is merely *one* of the things you 
have to do to get a diploma (although if you *don't* pass it, you 
don't get one).  In the British system, the tests are more 
specifically subject-area tests, and they're the goal in and of 
themselves.

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