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...Currently, the comparatively lower scores for students in middle school grades on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), the competition for pupils that arises between middle schools with different academic programs, and the resulting social isolation experienced by students and challenges for teachers at smaller schools remain hurdles for the system to overcome...
...Since teachers at schools with high MCAS scores are more likely to devote classroom time to other programs, it is not surprising that the schools that continue to work with CityStep tend to be better off relative to the rest of the district...
...students from grades five to eight benefit from CityStep, and in the past few years, the schools with which the organization has collaborated include Graham and Parks and Cambridgeport—two of the district’s financially well-off schools with high performance ratings on the MCAS...
...Child Left Behind could still be making progress, district officials said at a presentation to the city’s school committee last night. Maryann MacDonald, the executive director of student achievement and accountability, and superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn, discussed the district’s results on the MCAS, the state’s standardized tests, highlighting both areas of improvement and places that need more work. The aggregate scores showed that in many tests, public schools in Cambridge do not do as well as those in the state as a whole. Fowler-Finn, however, told the committee that...
Fowler-Finn has been praised for increasing the level of passing MCAS scores in the five years since he took over as superintendent. On the 2007 MCAS exam, 91 percent of students passed the English Language Arts (ELA) exam, compared with 79 percent in 2003; 90 percent passed the Mathematics exam, compared with 69 percent...