| Many Paterson high school students taking alternate route |
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| Wednesday, 19 March 2008 | |
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By DANIELLE SHAPIRO Most students who graduated last year from Paterson's Eastside High School did so without passing the required state standardized exam. Instead, 71 percent received diplomas after satisfying an alternative test that critics call an easier, back-door route to graduation. Called the Special Review Assessment, the exam isn't timed and asks students to answer more open-ended questions rather than the multiple-choice variety on the state standardized test. In 2005, state education officials were set to get rid of it entirely. But on Wednesday, the state Board of Education is expected to vote on a resolution that would maintain, yet amend, the SRA and replace it with a new exam called the Alternative High School Assessment for the 2009-10 academic year. READ MORE: http://www.myheraldnews.com/view.html?type=stories&action=detail&sub_id=30015
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