Two states require that students take independently-administered civics tests to graduate high school ... state mandate that students pass 10th grade MCAS exams in math, English, and science.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Monday evening, in a close 4-4-1 vote, the Cambridge City ... A vote yes on question two would remove the tenth-grade MCAS — a set of standardized tests assessing student performance in English ...

Each year, about 500,000 students take the MCAS — the benchmark “gold standard” standardized test in the state for nearly 30 years. The testing begins in the third grade, but students in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...