The percentage of District 65 students who met expectations in English Language Arts (ELA) jumped by 8.4 percentage points on ...

Massachusetts voters approved plans to audit the state Legislature, scrap the MCAS high school graduation mandate and allow ride-hailing drivers to unionize, but rejected proposals to legalize psyched ...

Massachusetts voted to eliminate MCAS as a graduation requirement, but the test will still be administered. Here's what ...

Massachusetts voters resoundingly approved a ballot question that will remove the requirement that high school students pass ...

Massachusetts voters have elected to say “yes” to ballot question 2, eliminating the need for the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) as a graduation requirement.

Question 2 sought to eliminate the decades-long standardized test as a prerequisite to a high school diploma. It was backed ...

BOSTON — Massachusetts voters approved plans to audit the state Legislature and scrap the MCAS high school graduation mandate, but rejected proposals to legalize psychedelic mushrooms and do away with ...

In language arts, third graders improved from 5.9% meeting expectations in 2023, to 10.8% in 2024. The state average was 37.2 ...

In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated into more than five math courses ...

But if the heterogeneous class avoided those pitfalls, the new math placement would give hundreds of students with low test scores in seventh and ... had already taken algebra in eighth grade or ...

When principal Jess McMurray saw the math scores at Soda Springs High, he decided something had to be done. It’s not that the scores were especially terrible — they’re above the state average, after ...

For many people, prime numbers have faded into the background since distant grade school days. However, for Luke Durant, a 36 ...