The 15-question multiple-choice graduation test does not seem designed to fail many of the candidates.

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The 1.1m children in the system suffered: graduation rates were abysmal and test scores were terrible.

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Meanwhile, standardized test scores and graduation rates remain stuck at mediocre levels nationally, and at worse than abysmal for many urban districts.

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Kathy Cox and Beverly Hall, the school superintendents of Georgia and Atlanta, have won praise for improving test scores and graduation rates.

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School test scores and graduation rates are improving but still aren't great.

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Start by comparing test scores, graduation rates and college admissions.

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For now, we tend to build our accountability systems on test scores, maybe graduation rates, and not much else.

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Participants who pass this test are awarded high school graduation certificates by the Department of Education, which enable them to continue to higher education or seek formal employment at a similar level to formal school graduates.

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Test scores are up 8 years in a row and graduation rates are up too.

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