State education leaders will release a new set of graduation requirements following the overturn of MCAS “very soon,” DESE ...

BOSTON — Opponents of using the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test as a high school graduation requirement suggest there are better ways to measure student achievement, should voters ...

FALL RIVER — Fall River Public Schools will still implement the MCAS test this school year, even though a state ballot measure passed to eliminate MCAS as a graduation requirement. Because MCAS test ...

Voters shall have the opportunity to make Massachusetts’ educational system more just for all students. By voting YES on Question 2, we can eliminate the narrowed curricula created by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FALL RIVER — Fall River Public Schools will still implement the MCAS test this school year, even though a state ballot measure ...

This fall, Massachusetts voters will decide on a ballot question about the role of standardized testing as a high school graduation requirement. The question, if approved, would eliminate the ...

Massachusetts public high schools have experienced a sharp decline in 10th graders passing all three MCAS exams over the last five years with the latest scores showing approximately16,000 students ...

It’s interesting that higher performing schools may be ignoring the MassCore standards (”Suggested curricula is widely ignored,” Metro, Oct. 15). I am a supporter of eliminating the MCAS as a ...

New standardized test scores show students in Massachusetts are still recovering from learning losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic — but critics say those results are hiding a more complicated ...

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