To many students who have largely completed their requirements for graduation, the last year of high school has become a weary period of waiting. What provisions have been made by high schools to counteract this situation? The author queried educators at 36 schools to seek some answers. (Editor)

This article attempts to construct a classification system for those places where degrees can be acquired without the normal work output or residency requirements that are expected at all accredited institutions or that are candidates for accreditation by the six regional accrediting bodies. (Author)

THE FACTORS RELATED TO COUNSELING AND THEIR EFFECT UPON GRADUATION WERE STUDIED. THREE STUDIES WHICH HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY CONDUCTED WERE REPLICATED. THE PREVIOUS STUDIES WERE CONDUCTED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI BY SHEPHERD, BORRESEN, AND JOHNSON. THE PRESENT STUDY USED 471 SUBJECTS. A NONCOUNSELED COMPARISON GROUP WAS MATCHED TO A COUNSELED…

This paper offers solutions to the apathy, social disillusionment, absenteeism, and restlessness on the part of twelfth graders approaching graduation. First it discusses causes of "senioritis" and pinpoints those students most likely to be affected. Types of senior options include bypassing twelfth grade altogether, seventh semester graduation or…

Education reforms enacted by the 1983 Florida legislature included, for the first time, a minimum number of credits as a state standard for graduation, including a physical education requirement. Physical educators responded by offering as many courses as possible to meet students' interests and by developing a required personal fitness course to…

A survey of all states and territories indicated that 45 had increased high school graduation requirements during 1984-85, while 15 increased enrollments in vocational education and 22 experienced decreases. Factors affecting increased enrollments included funding allocations changes, variable time periods for vocational courses, and increased…

In a survey of 48 state supervisors of home economics, 20 indicated that secondary students in their state could gain academic credit through study in home economics. Ten supervisors stated that there were curriculum or materials developed in their state to support home economics as part of academic credit. (CH)

The credentialist thesis is applied to high school graduation requirements by tracing their transformation according to societal demand. Because of demands for further education and academic excellence, secondary education presently occupies a modest position in American status aspirations and has encumbered its curricula with unrestricted…

In the summer of 1985 the state of Maryland added one credit of fine arts to its high school graduation requirements. Major initiatives that brought this about are described. (RM)

A table prepared by the Education Commission of the States details the high school graduation requirements of each state, based on a survey conducted in November and December 1983. (TE)

Certain states and local districts are setting up performance criteria a student must meet before he can graduate from high school. (IRT)

The Montana School Accreditation Standards require schools to do follow-up studies of graduates and students no longer in attendance, therefore, dropout and graduate data is collected from all public and accredited (by the Montana Board of Public Education) non-public schools. Dropout data can be used in conjunction with graduate data to build a…

These proceedings record the 66th Annual Meeting of the Association for Continuing Higher Education held in Newport, Rhode Island. President Jerry Hickerson's theme for this annual meeting was, "Lifelong Learning: Crossing Bridges into New Territories." This theme asked us to examine the bridges that we build to diversity, articulation, research,…

This report, which was updated in July 2006, contains a state by state review of graduation requirements at the High School level in Mathematics and Science across all 50 states. With the exception of New Jersey, required coursework is expressed in this document in Carnegie units, with one unit reflecting one year of coursework. Units defined in…

In a continuing effort to understand the decisions and life choices of Oregon's high school graduates, the Oregon University System conducted a telephone survey of a random sample of the class of 2005 Oregon high school graduates. This biennial study--the seventh in a series--sought to identify the proportion of the graduating class that attended…