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...points. The Massachusetts Department of Education uses MCAS scores to determine whether schools are meeting annual benchmarks as defined by the No Child Left Behind Act, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2002. But Robert A. Schaeffer, the public education director of FairTest??€”a Cambridge-based organization that monitors standardized tests from the kindergarten through the graduate level—said the occurrence of grading errors in the MCAS undermines the validity of these tests in charting student performance. “Over the last several years, there have been a few errors...
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