Word: mcas
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...CRLS) has undergone several drastic changes. A major redesign has hurt veteran teacher morale, parents are upset about the guidance department and students faced massive scheduling problems at the beginning of this school year. These problems, compounded by a high failure rate on the recent Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests, have created a strained atmosphere at CRLS. In this light, a recent proposal to lower the voting age to 16 for local elections may be an innovative way to give students a chance to impact their own education...
...Discounting the students who did not take the test does not give a truly accurate picture of how tenth-graders performed on the MCAS tests, Black said. She said she has no way of knowing how the boycotters would have scored had they actually taken the test...
...King Open School traditionally has high MCAS scores. But only 18 of the school's 32 fourth-graders took MCAS last spring, which directly affected test scores. This year the King Open's numbers are down significantly, Groves said...
...only school district results are skewed. State education officials have urged districts to use individual students' MCAS scores to identify their strengths and weaknesses, Groves said, which becomes impossible when there are no results to analyze...
...release of the scores came three weeks after the Massachusetts Association of School Committees criticized MCAS as "seriously flawed" and called for the state to hold off on using the test as a graduation standard...