the glitchy computer-administered MAP test and practice tests for the MCAS test. “For every day they’re in a test, the kids are not learning,” McGlone said. “It’s become a big business.” Since Bush ...

That sort of patchwork of graduation requirements is part of what the MCAS graduation test was intended to solve, and advocates of the test argue that having it as a measure of the state’s ...

The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released scores from the 2024 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment (MCAS) standardized tests taken last spring. According to the data ...

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. Michlin said she currently pays a tutor ...

15). I am a supporter of eliminating the MCAS as a graduation requirement, not just because of students with disabilities or second language learners but because “teaching to the test” creates ...

My daughter is a fourth-grade school teacher in Massachusetts so she is very familiar with the MCAS tests. She has two children in high school. One of those children is gifted in English ...

5 election ballot to decide whether the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test should remain a criterion for graduation. If a majority of voters vote yes on Question 2, MCAS would no ...

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The ballot question to remove the MCAS standardized test as a graduation requirement is supported by the state’s largest teachers union, while many business and state leaders are against it.

5 election ballot: Should Massachusetts keep the MCAS test as a requirement for public school students to graduate? Melissa Verdier, president of the Educational Association of Worcester ...

Across Massachusetts, students have been performing poorly on the MCAS English test ever since the pandemic. And Taunton is no exception. Last week, the Massachusetts Department of Education released ...

Across Massachusetts, students have been performing poorly on the MCAS English test ever since the pandemic. And Taunton is no exception. Last week, the Massachusetts Department of Education ...