Word: mcas
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Patterson emphasizes the dilemma many parents face in the MCAS issue...
...think the MCAS helps the students? No. But I don't think that's its purpose. It helps the way schools are evaluated," she says...
...There are so many problems with individual schools that until school reform takes place, there is no true way to evaluate the success of individual schools. The MCAS can help," she says...
...teacher-basher," she says. "It's not that I disapprove of the job teachers and principals are doing. It's just that there are some good teachers, and then there are some bad teachers. And the purpose of standardized testing [like MCAS] is to level the criteria...
...There is no perfect way to improve schools. Teachers and principals are not used to being held accountable, and the MCAS heightens the competitiveness of schools, especially in Cambridge," she says...