and 18 out of 60 points on the biology exam. The tests are administered to 10th-graders every spring on separate subjects, ...

The change goes into immediate effect, freeing the class of 2025 from passing exams in English, math, and science in order to ...

As if picking a president weren’t hard enough, voters in Massachusetts on Election Day will also decide how thousands of high school students should earn their diplomas. Passage of Ballot Question 2 ...

The Department of Biology provides the student with opportunities to obtain a broad foundation of biological knowledge and to pursue the study of a particular area of biology through upper-division ...

The passing score for biology is 467; for physics it is 470 ... She recognized that there are problems with the MCAS but said ...

The passing score for biology is 467 ... She recognized that there are problems with the MCAS but said eliminating the exam as a graduation requirement without having a replacement statewide ...

Developmental biology is the field of biology that studies the processes by which multicellular organisms grow and develop, controlled by their genes. Knowledge of normal developmental processes ...

“[A ‘yes’ vote] is really not going to change much. It doesn’t mean the MCAS goes away. We have to have a test.” The Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents’ Executive ...

My daughter is a fourth-grade school teacher in Massachusetts so she is very familiar with the MCAS tests ... requiring them to pass one test is not the way. Let’s not normalize ...

She continued: “I got diagnosed with POTS, Sjogrens and Mcas in 2018 and really relate to not wanting your health to be your identity. “The good folks at [Dysautonomia International] were ...

"A way to assess performance and how kids are doing, that is through the MCAS exam," she said. "Massachusetts has the best public schools in the country because of our high standards, not in spite ...