Word: mcas
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...Cambridge School Committee defied the Massachusetts Department of Education (DOE) last night by eliminating the Massachusetts Comprehension Assessment System (MCAS) test as a high school graduation requirement, making it the second town to defy DOE-mandated high-stakes testing...
...applause of testing critics and Harvard graduate students, Mark A. “Pete” Peterson explained how a faulty geometry problem on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) perplexed him for 10 minutes—and how he felt MCAS did not really prepare him for life...
...Linda F. Nathan, headmaster of the public Boston Arts Academy, who chose to home-school her own son rather than have him take the MCAS, disagreed. Nathan said testing does not correlate with high standards and ignores important aspects of education like creativity...
Several dozen protesters congregated in front of the school during the address. Eleanor L. Hyde, a student at Arlington High School and a member of the Student Coalition Against MCAS, Massachusetts’ standardized testing program, criticized the law’s requirement for standardized testing in grades three through eight to be conducted by each state...
...also likely that some teachers, fearing that many of their pupils might otherwise fail, changed their curricula and activities to “teach to the test.” This almost certainly accounted for part of the rise in MCAS scores. But there is no way to know whether that accurately reflects knowledge gained, or whether other subjects and topics were sacrificed to make more time for MCAS practice...