Word: mcas
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WORCESTER--School board members from across the state strongly criticized the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) yesterday and called on state education officials to stop requiring the test for graduation until "critical issues" have been resolved...
...annual meeting of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees, representatives from more than half of the state's school governing boards took a middle ground, leaving open the possibility that MCAS could be used as a graduation requirement in the future...
...a137-30 vote, they adopted a resolution calling MCAS--a battery of standardized tests given state-wide to fourth, eighth and tenth graders--"seriously flawed...
...they defeated a stronger resolution that would have asked for a permanent prohibition on MCAS as a graduation standard...
...MCAS results are due to be released Nov. 15. When they are, absent a miracle, they will confirm what people should have known all along: Education is improved by encouraging, motivating and supporting teachers and students, not by putting a gun to their heads...