"We need to look at the total picture because no student is standard. After all, we aren’t educating widgets," writes one.

Due to state statute that mandates students take the MCAS test to get a diploma, the committee reevaluating the state’s education accountability system did not consider the graduation ...

Ballot question two asks whether the teacher or the administrator should be the arbiter of the high school diploma. The end ...

Approximately 3,000 more 10th-grade students failed the MCAS exam in 2024 than in the year prior — a notable uptick sure to come under scrutiny as the fate of the standardized test as a high ...

and are no longer required to take any of the MCAS tests,” said Curtin. “This is compared to 82% from 2023, the class of 2025.” BESE expects the number of students who pass the EPP to ...

Proponents of the measure believe eliminating MCAS as a graduation requirement will allow teachers more freedom to set curriculum, decrease the need to “teach to the test” and allow them to ...

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 ...

Massachusetts voters will have an important decision to make this November when it comes to education. WBZ-TV's Paul Burton reports. Yahoo Personal Finance ...

I have a few questions about Question 2 (eliminating the MCAS graduation requirement) and I want the answers. First, 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 released ...

We are writing in response to Kinga Borondy's MCAS article ("Ballot question to ... for more than performing well on any one particular test. No single test should be used to determine who ...