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High Schools in Four States Piloting Program Designed to Bring American High Schools Up To Global Standards: High schools in Arizona, Connecticut, Kentucky and Mississippi are participating in a national pilot program that could result in basic changes in high school structure, curriculum, and testing throughout the country. The new program, Excellence for All (formerly the Board Examination Systems Program), is based on more than 20 years of research by the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) on those countries that routinely outperform the United States on international assessments of student performance. Click here to read the full release.
The National Center receives grant from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation to implement Board Examination System in Connecticut school. Click here and here for more information.
Four Board Examination Systems Certified for Use in Pilot Study: Proposals were evaluated by a State Review Panel, composed of representatives of the member states, by NCEE’s Technical Advisory Committee and by the National Center for the improvement of Educational Assessment. As a result of this process, four organizations were certified to offer their systems to pilot schools. Click here for an overview of the four certified organizations.
Excellence for All in the Media
Kingman parents, students receive a course on Cambridge prep, Kingman Daily Miner, August 28, 2012
Education Excellence, KAET-TV, March 21, 2012
What States and Nonprofits are Doing to Encourage Early Highschool Graduation, Education Week (transcript of online chat), February 27, 2012
Program gets students through high school in 2 years, Frankfort State Journal (KY), February 10, 2012
What Can U.S. Schools Learn From Foreign Counterparts?, District Administration magazine, February 2012
Some States Prodding Students to Graduate Early, Education Week, January 25, 2011
Move on When Ready, KAET-TV, December 15, 2011
NCEE Pilots Global Curriculum in High Schools, Education Daily, October 17, 2011
Pilot Aims to Ready High Schoolers for Community College in 2 Years, Education Week, October 4, 2011
LCHS Taking Part in New Pilot Program, News-Democrat & Leader, September 27, 2011
State education director explains reforms in testing, reading, Yuma Sun, September 21, 2011
ASU charter school adopts early diploma program, East Valley Tribune, August 23, 2011
Arizona Schools Try New Diploma System, Arizona Rebublic, August 12, 2011
Schools Sought to Try Out Tough Exam System, Hartford Courant, December 19, 2010
Plan Would Let Students Start College After 10th Grade – The New York Times, February 17, 2010