Forty percent of Philadelphia students qualify as "graduation-ready" by passing easy online classes in low-value skills.

More students are completing high school, but fewer are prepared to learn a skilled trade or pass a college math class.

The "Portrait of a Graduate" fad is likely to be "so vague and insipid that they create a permission structure for schools to prioritize most everything except academics and to excuse themselves when they fail at their responsibility to teach even basic literacy and numeracy,"

If "open access" colleges raised standards, would students work harder to qualify?

Most career credentials offered in high school will not lead to a career, or even an entry-level job, but may provide an easier path to a diploma.

Washington state traded its exit exam for multiple graduation pathways, but still has 20% of students who aren't on track for a diploma.

Passing students who don't show up regularly or do the work is "just crazy," says an "A" students -- and many of her teachers in Chicago.

New York students will be able to graduate from high school without passing Regents exams, the state education department proposes....

Thousands of Tennessee children will be going to summer school -- or repeating third grade, reports Chalkbeat's Marta W. Aldrich. Sixty...