Schools

Spring-Ford Debates Grad Project Future as Mandate is Lifted

Beginning in 2017, students will be required to pass tests to graduate instead of a project.

While Pennsylvania’s mandated graduation project for high school students were meant to give students “real-life learning experiences” to prepare them for college and the workforce, in 2017 they will be replaced with a series of exams in order to graduate.

When the Pennsylvania Board of Education met earlier in September, it decided that the graduation project was no longer necessary because of the newly-adopted Pennsylvania Core Standards, which focus on understanding concepts that would have otherwise been learned doing the education project, according to The Morning Call.

Some schools are keeping the projects, or components; Spring-Ford Area High School administration is still deciding on the future of graduation projects in the district.

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“We have not yet reached a decision about whether or not to keep graduation projects as part of our curriculum,” says Spring-Ford Are School District Superintendent David Goodin “We are currently discussing how a decision to eliminate graduation projects would impact students and staff.”


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