{"id":1884,"date":"2013-11-19T06:30:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T13:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2013-11-15T08:49:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T15:49:26","slug":"exit-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/19\/exit-to-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Exit&#8230;To Prison?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from Practical Homeschooling #111<\/p>\n<p>State after state has been adding high-school exit exams. \u00a0Now, almost half of all U.S. states require students to pass an exit exam&#8230; and if they don&#8217;t, their diploma is withheld.<\/p>\n<p>But do exit exams hurt, or help?<\/p>\n<p>A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research, &#8220;The Effect of High School Exit Exams on Graduation, Employment, Wages and Incarceration,&#8221; says there is no correlation between passing (or failing) exit exams, and employment or salary. \u00a0In addition, of the 1% who don&#8217;t pass, 12.5% end up in jail.<\/p>\n<p>In a Take Part article about this new study, blog author and retired teacher Anthony Cody summed it up this way: \u00a0&#8220;Exit exams represent a single set of tests that trumps years of work that students have completed.&#8221; \u00a0He thinks they should be abolished.<\/p>\n<p>You can purchase the report for $5 here: www.nber.org\/papers\/w19182.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from Practical Homeschooling #111 State after state has been adding high-school exit exams. \u00a0Now, almost half of all U.S. states require students to pass an exit exam&#8230; and if they don&#8217;t, their diploma is withheld. But do exit exams hurt, or help? A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research, &#8220;The Effect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informative","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}