CHECK IT OUT: Minnesota's must-pass math test goes by wayside

By Emily Johns of the Star Tribune

Editor’s note: If you’ve been freaking out about the math tests every Minnesota student was going to have to pass in order to graduate, check out this story from Minneapolis’s Star Tribune.

The path to high school graduation for Minnesota’s next few graduating classes got significantly easier this month.

The Class of 2010 was going to be the first required to pass a new series of high-stakes state graduation tests before students were awarded their diplomas next spring.

But the Legislature recently decided that students no longer have to pass the 11th-grade math test — many educators think it’s too difficult — and would have caused a precipitous drop in graduation rates next year.

Read the story here