"Massachusetts is ranked number one in education thanks in part to our strong graduation requirements," argues one letter.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 90 percent of sophomores pass the test — called the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System or MCAS — on their first try. Failing students can retake the exams several times ...

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 ...

I am a longtime educator and I plan to vote “Yes” on Question 2, which would replace the MCAS test as a high school graduation requirement. Instead, students would need to demonstrate that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...