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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Montgomery County will do away with high school finals

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — Montgomery County education leaders are moving forward with plans to eliminate high school final exams, despite teachers’ concerns.

The Washington Post reports (http://wapo.st/1kC33NO) the school board backed a proposal to get rid of exams in September, and reaffirmed its decision at a meeting last week.

Starting next school year, 45-minute quarterly assessments will replace two-hour semester exams. Officials say this will mean two more weeks of instructional time a year because there will no longer be special exam weeks when teaching stops.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I just looked at the MoCo Dept of Ed website - quite eye-opening!

Anonymous said...

Another 'dumbing down' move

Anonymous said...

Common Core bs.

Anonymous said...

It's nice to see the GED crowd chiming in. GED = Good Enough Diploma.

Anonymous said...

Why bother to make them go to school at all?? Just give them a piece of paper that says "diploma". Same result..