Based on recent MCAS scores, the Central Berkshire Regional School District has seen growth in many areas, but work still ...

5 election ballot to decide whether the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test ... the MCAS requirement, found that students who failed the standardized exam in the 10th grade were ...

5 — which, if passed ... which encompasses scores of 470 to 499. Students' Grade 10 MCAS scores are those that determine whether they can graduate a public high school or not.

It was the day of the statewide MCAS exams, which the fifth-grade teacher was boycotting. She planned to perform physics experiments with students whose parents opted them out of the tests because ...

The leaders of the Massachusetts Teachers Association Zoomed into the Globe editorial board recently to argue for Question 2, their ballot initiative to nix the MCAS graduation test, and oh what ...

They take hours, require study, practice, and for teachers ... culminating in Question 2 on the Nov. 5 election ballot. The Grade 10 MCAS tests English Language Arts, Mathematics, and one of ...

Massachusetts students in grades 3-8 and grade 10 take the MCAS. All students are tested in math and English language arts. A science test is taken by students in grades 5, 8 and one high school ...

5 election ballot: Should Massachusetts keep ... Currently, scoring a passing grade on the MCAS test is a requirement for a high school student to receive a diploma. Students typically take ...

Rhode Island cloned its standardized testing system for public school students from neighboring Massachusetts — and each year ...

Her 18-year-old daughter, who has autism and other cognitive disabilities, hasn’t passed the MCAS yet and is taking the standardized test in November ... a parent and fourth grade teacher ...

We are writing in response to Kinga Borondy's MCAS article ("Ballot question to ... for more than performing well on any one particular test. No single test should be used to determine who ...

The average statewide percentages of 10th grade students ... 2 on the Nov. 5 state election ballot is a proposal to eliminate the requirement that a student pass the MCAS tests in mathematics ...