Boston Herald6 天
Maguire: It’s time to stop ‘teaching to the MCAS test’
The English Language Arts portion of the MCAS primarily tests reading comprehension on short passages, typically the length of an article you’d find in a magazine. Go visit the DESE website to ...
The Boston Globe9 天
Quiz: Could you pass the 10th grade MCAS?
Voters may wonder: What does passing the tests really entail? Try the two quizzes below to find out. These are real questions from recent Grade 10 MCAS math and English exams. On the final three ...
Iberkshires10 天
CBRSD MCAS Data Shows Value of the Interventionist Model
Based on recent MCAS scores, the Central Berkshire Regional School District has seen growth in many areas, but work still ...
The Suffolk Journal8 天
Voters weigh in on eliminating MCAS graduation requirement
Massachusetts voters will decide whether the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System should remain a high school ...
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian6 天
The debate over removing MCAS as a graduation requirement
Ballot question 2 would eliminate the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) as a statewide graduation requirement ... What I don’t want is a state that allows one test to determine ...
Opinion
End of MCAS graduation requirement is not the way R.I. should want to close achievement gap
Massachusetts, long the darling of American education, is about to shut down a major engine of its success. Ballot Question 2 asks voters to end the requirement that students pass a fairly low bar on ...
Daily Hampshire Gazette6 天Opinion
Guest columnists Jo Comerford and Stephen G. Sireci: Voting ‘yes’ on Question 2 and ...
Do you want to end high-stakes testing — the practice of allowing one test to determine whether or not a student receives a ...
MassLive20 天
I administered the Grade 10 MCAS exam. It’s hard (Letters)
In a recent issue of The Republican, three teachers from Mashpee, Revere and Agawam urged voters to maintain the MCAS ... as being a test of “basic” skills. I administered the Grade 10 exam ...
Boston Herald8 天
State education board addresses MCAS ballot question, gives no plan if voters reject test ...
which would nix the MCAS standardized testing graduation requirement for Massachusetts high school students. If the question is passed, students would continue to take the test as an assessment ...
MassLive6 天
End to MCAS grad test would hurt Latino students (Letters to The Republican)
Before Massachusetts created the MCAS graduation requirement as part of its Education Reform Act of 1993, Latino students faced disproportionately lower graduation rates, college admissions ...
AOL28 天
Taunton students struggle with MCAS English test post-pandemic amid rising absenteeism
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 ...
Yahoo22 天
Cape and Islands 10th grade MCAS scores: Several schools underperforming. Here's the data.
The average statewide percentages of 10th grade students who met or exceeded ... to eliminate the requirement that a student pass the MCAS tests in mathematics, science and technology, and English ...