{"id":2414,"date":"2026-06-19T06:07:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2026-06-19T06:07:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:07:29","slug":"this-is-the-final-nail-in-new-yorks-worthless-diploma-coffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=2414","title":{"rendered":"This is the final nail in New York’s worthless-diploma coffin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Once again, the state Board of Regents is undermining education standards, this time by creating an \u201cpath\u201d to a high-school diploma that doesn\u2019t rely on schooling.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s part of the drive to junk proficiency measures, such as the Regents exams that have been the core requirement for the last century, in favor of a falsely-named \u201ccompetency-based\u201d approach that relies on projects, portfolios, and \u201cwork-based learning\u201d such as apprenticeships.<\/p>\n

Just two years ago, the State Education Department scrapped the requirement of passing five Regents exams to earn a high-school diploma; now SED and the Regents who direct it are going to ax the tests altogether \u2014 likely the final nail<\/em> in New York\u2019s academic-standards coffin.<\/p>\n

In the age of artificial intelligence, subject matter proficiency is an option<\/em>, claim the Regents (who hold advanced degrees).<\/p>\n

This, even as they mandate K-12 propaganda about climate change \u2014 classes that will be a graduation requirement.<\/p>\n

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But demanding literacy and numeracy?\u00a0Fuggedaboutit!<\/p>\n

Good high schools will still produce competent graduates, but terrible ones will get to hand out diplomas on the basis of no real learning at all. <\/p>\n

Serious vocational training might work as a real alternate path to a different class of diploma, but that\u2019s not what the Regents are after.<\/p>\n

One more time: The people now in charge of New York public education are enemies <\/em>of genuine schooling. <\/p>\n

Until that changes, parents will have to fight the system to do right by their children\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

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