Fortunately, the higher education community has agreed on a method of reporting graduations that will address this transfer problem and other issues to provide much more accurate graduation numbers.
Connecticut created more stringent graduation requirements and a teacher evaluation system that used student achievement.
But proponents of the more flexible graduation plans insist that a new day has dawned for career and technical education — and that it will not share the flaws of a previous generation's vocational programs.
Champions of more stringent graduation requirements say they also help push students — particularly those who do not come from families in which college attendance is assumed — to achieve at levels they might not have considered on their own.
One point of agreement between the city and the researchers was the looming challenge posed by a state mandate to impose more rigorous graduation standards, which affects this year's ninth graders.
"In France, families celebrate acceptance at a grande école more than graduation itself," said Richard Descoings, who runs the most liberal of them, the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, known as Sciences Po. "Once you pass the exam at 18 or 19, for the rest of your life, you belong".
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Wasn't I supposed to have accomplished more since graduation?
But such progress was threatened by the more rigorous graduation requirements that took effect this year, more than a decade after the L.A. school board approved them.
The faster and more sharply graduation rates rise in the wake of the adoption of a credit recovery program, the more reason there is to cast an uncertain eye at the program.
