Word: mcas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MCAS requires students to write out answers and engage in complex problem-solving," she says. "The idea that it takes too much time is wrong. This is not wasted time. It gives students time to practice skills that are important...
...Sullivan also says one of the newest and most controversial measures of the test is problematic: the requirement of having to pass the MCAS to graduate, which will first apply to the class...
...Linda Neri, communications manager for the Massachusetts Coalition for Higher Standards, a public-interest group specializing in the issue of the MCAS, points to a piece of information she says many worried parents and teachers may not know: students who do not pass the test in the 10th grade can retake the test in the 11th and 12th grades...
Still, teachers say they worry that the time required to administer the test will detract from time devoted to school curriculum, as well as focusing the curriculum on the MCAS material...
Josie Patterson, a parent of two children in the Cambridge Public School system, a first grader at Cambridgeport School and a seventh grader at Graham and Parks School, draws a distinction between the usefulness of the MCAS on the level of the individual student and on the level of schools...