Word: mcas
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Since the 1996 debut of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment Test (MCAS), a student test used as a statistical marker of public schools, the test has been at the center of a debate between parents' organizations, teachers' unions and education groups...
...debate has focused on the administration and significance of the MCAS, initiated by Chair of the Massachusetts Board of Education John Silber...
...statewide Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests were implemented last May. Students in the fourth, eighth and 10th grades are given open-ended questions to test their knowledge of English, science and math...
...opponents say the MCAS has the same narrow focus as the teacher tests...
...MCAS] doesn't teach creativity. It doesn't test how far a child has come over the course of the year....All these things come into play when evaluating children," Haynes said...