Hey, Why Don't We Start an External High School Diploma Program?

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Patricia King, Onondaga-Cortland-Madison BOCES
Mary Beth Hinton, Syracuse University

Document Type

Article

Date

Spring 1993

Keywords

New York State External High School Diploma Program, Competency-Based Education, Stephen K. Bailey

Language

English

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities

Description/Abstract

STEPHEN K. BAILEY (1916-1982), a distinguished educator, once remarked that the four most powerful words in the English language are "Hey, why don't we ..." In 1972 he and his colleagues Francis U. Macy and Donn F. Vicars, who shared his passionate commitment to educational change, designed the New York State External High School Diploma Program,3 the first program to award high school diplomas based on demonstrated competence, regardless of how that competence was acquired.

Recommended Citation

King, Patricia and Hinton, Mary Beth, "Hey, Why Don't We Start an External High School Diploma Program?" (1993). The Courier. 303.
https://surface.syr.edu/libassoc/303

Source

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