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According to the Education Commission of the States, a Denver-based research group, about a dozen states and the District of Columbia have decided to lower elective requirements for graduating classes over the next five years, in many instances swapping them for core subjects like math, science and foreign languages.
At the same time, the English Baccalaureate Certificates will be introduced for core subjects.
The government says it wants to abolish GCSEs for core subjects and introduce English Baccalaureate certificates from 2015.
A shake-up of the exam system, unveiled by Education Secretary Michael Gove, will mean a single end-of-course exam and one exam board for core subjects.
According to government statistics only 35% of ICT teachers are specialists, compared with more than 80% for core subjects such as maths and English.
Plaid Cymru education spokesman Simon Thomas said he welcomed Mr Gove's "move towards a single exam board for core subjects" which Plaid had already advocated for Wales.
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Older students use indicators, such as mastery of core subjects, to figure out if they're ultimately on track for college completion.
Teachers who raise student achievement should receive large bonuses for teaching in high-poverty schools and extra compensation for teaching core subjects in shortage areas like math and science.
The Department of Trade and Industry's CSR Academy has set out levels of attainment for six core subjects including understanding society, building capacity, stakeholder relations and harnessing workplace diversity.
Over 100,000 students have used courses built on PrepMe's platform and it has been deployed internationally for both core subjects and elective courses.
All of the questions were selected from the AIChE Concept Warehouse (Koretsky et al., 2014 a database containing concept questions for several core subjects in the chemical engineering discipline and information about each question's difficulty based on student performance in the course(s) in which it had been previously used.
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