On Nov. 5, Massachusetts voters will decide whether to keep the state’s two-decade-old state test graduation ... and a science on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System.

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

While much of the focus will be on the contest for president of the United States, Massachusetts voters will all have five ...

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 ...

Novels are not on the MCAS so schools don’t emphasize them. Don’t let anyone fool you, schools certainly do “teach to the test” because schools and districts are judged by the MCAS results.

Here’s why: The core issue with high-stakes testing like the MCAS is that it reduces a student’s entire educational experience to a test score. No standardized test can measure a student’s ...

Ballot question 2 would eliminate the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) as a statewide graduation ... What I don’t want is a state that allows one test to determine whether or not a ...

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 ...

A ballot measure would do away with the requirement that high schoolers pass a test to graduate. Opponents say it could water down academics for struggling students. By Troy Closson Deep blue ...

Superintendent Brandi Kwong told the committee that even if voters choose to remove the MCAS as a graduation requirement through a ballot question next week the test will not be going away ...

said he supports repealing the MCAS graduation requirement because it will "put the power back in (teachers) hands." “We need to trust our teachers, not some one-size-fits-all test," Damon said.