R.I. Downplays Tests as Route To Diplomas.

This article presents information related to R.I. downplaying tests as route to diplomas. At a ritzy downtown hotel, 12th grader Megan Duclos spent a recent Saturday helping about 80 couples plan their wedding receptions. While about half the states require high school students to pass tests to graduate, or have plans to do so, policymakers in the nation's smallest state have struck out on a path that values multiple ways of measuring achievement. Under state rules adopted two years ago, Rhode Island districts have had to design new graduation policies that use measures other than tests to assess students' abilities.