BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The New York State Board of Regents announced last week that it’s moving into the next phase of NY Inspires; under this education transformation, high school students will no longer have to pass Regents exams to graduate, starting with the class of 2028.
“For us, it’s thinking, we have these students who are coming in without these traditional kind of metrics that we had, that we ourselves are going to look more at the individual,” Raquel Schmidt, interim dean of the School of Education and Professions at Buffalo State, said. “A lot of this is far more collaborative and communicative, which I think is an excellent thing.”
Schmidt said higher education is shifting how they assess a college-ready student…