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Along with the rest of the state, Cambridge education officials must also confront the imminent repercussions of Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), which will be come a high-school graduation requirement next year...
...MCAS has come under fire across the state—most recently in a lawsuit filed in Springfield by six students, a suit that local school officials say they are watching closely...
Less than a year ago, the school committee voted to defy the education department and grant diplomas to students who do not pass MCAS, but D’Alessandro says she does not know how that decision will play out next year without a “viable diploma” for the students who have failed MCAS...
While classroom dynamics are difficult, I feel even more sorry for both sexes outside the classroom, where middle school consciousness of gender looms over my students more than anything, except maybe the MCAS. Today at lunch, my table of girls decided they weren’t going to eat lunch for fear they might gain weight. While these 11-year-old girls agonize over every sandwich, their male counterparts are showing off their muscles and manhandling smaller boys to flaunt their strength. One of my students doesn’t understand that sports aren’t everything?...
...look at the MCAS, the results relate to patterns of race,” he said, referring to the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, a mandatory set of standardized tests. “If you look at employment, wealth growing, health, it all relates to race...