Moving on from the Keystone Assessments

Moving on from the Keystone Assessments

A parked school bus. (Photo by Phillippe Gerber/Getty Images)The Keystone Exams were designed with two commendable goals: to establish a consistent statewide graduation standard and to serve as an accountability measure for high schools in preparing students for postsecondary success. The exams were intended to become a graduation requirement by 2017. Enacted in 2010, state legislation authorized the creation of ten end-of-course assessments; ho…