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Gentlemen: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System," you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the Bad Guys--than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
School committee members reflect the attitudes of parents like Ward and King: a mix of philosophical support for the idea of testing and frustration with the implementation of the exam...
Last year, for instance, third graders across the city took the Iowa test, a nationally-recognized reading exam. On that test, 58 percent of students were classified as proficient or advanced readers. But just 17 percent of fourth graders last year scored proficient or above on the MCAS language arts exam...
...Arlington, 25 students received three-day suspensions for not taking the composition exam, and in Brookline, students who boycotted the test had a zero factored into their grade...
Though MCAS is a state initiative, the exam has put pressure on local schools officials, who will likely face a dilemma in 2003, when for the first time graduation will be based on passing the MCAS...