The recently adopted curriculum for Georgia high schools is, in effect, a college preparatory liberal arts program requiring advanced mathematics, science, history, English literature and, if the student plans to attend a four-year college, foreign languages. It is a curriculum that requires a distribution of courses covering a wide spectrum of subjects and knowledge that is more rigorous than the distribution requirements of some Ivy League universities. The required curriculum for teenagers who are not interested in or able to go to college is essentially the same the basic difference is that they don’t have to take two years of foreign languages.
Other states have made similar changes in their graduation requirements and it is believed that the result has been an increase in the percentage of high school students earning a diploma. Even if true, these increases have not been significant, and the graduation rates still leave much to be desired.
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