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 ...

More than 30 years ago, Massachusetts legislators passed a landmark education bill that established for the first time ...

In essence, the MCAS measures how districts using different approaches stack up to each other, test supporters say. If Question 2 passed, districts would be in charge of determining a student's ...

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 ...

she asked. We had been reviewing for the upcoming MCAS exam, and I had spent all of class dragging my students through a practice test. Olivia wasn’t simply angry that she had to prepare for and ...

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 ...

The high stakes MC *** S is bad for students, bad for them as educators and bad for the Commonwealth Massachusetts has become the leading education state in the country. What the voters should be ...

WHAT THEY SAY. IT DOES NOT DO. THE MCAS IS A MEASURE OF A SNAPSHOT OF WHERE STUDENTS ARE RELATIVE TO THE STANDARD. I WOULD AGREE THAT SOME KIDS CAN’T TAKE TESTS, RIGHT? NO, I WOULD NOT AGREE ...

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 ...

In just a few weeks, Massachusetts voters will decide whether MCAS test scores will still be used as a graduation requirement for high school students. Question 2 has ignited a spirited debate ...

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 ...

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 ...