The percentage of students who successfully complete their academic programs at an educational institution and receive formal attestation thereof in the form of a certificate,
A comprehensive examination administered by public high schools in twenty-five states to determine whether graduating seniors qualify for a high school diploma.
An institution of higher learning, usually a part of a university, offering courses in the entire spectrum of arts and sciences at levels higher than those available at four-year colleges.
A standardized test developed by the EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE in 1954 as a qualifying test for admission to almost all graduate schools of business.
One of the numbered classes, ranging from first grade to twelfth grade, in American elementary and secondary schools. Sometimes called by the English term “form,”
The elevation of grades and raw scores to levels not commensurate with actual academic achievement. Documented in a number of studies comparing student scores in school
A primary or secondary educational institution whose students are grouped in classes according to chronological age and progress from grade to grade after mastering the materials of each grade.
Educator / founder and longtime director of the CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL RENEWAL, a major force for educational reform in the United States during the last two decades of the 20th century.
A program of voluntary national education standards provoked by the startling 1983 report A Nation at Risk. Compiled by the National Commission on Excellence in Education...