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Words from both sides suggest two areas of underlying agreement among the discord: achievement tests are worthwhile, but MCAS is an imperfect instrument...
Ward, a parent of three students in the Cambridge public schools, is like many parents who oppose MCAS. His objections to MCAS, he says, are specifically about this exam--not the idea of having state-wide tests...
Starting next year, passing the tenth grade MCAS will be a state requirement to receive a high school diploma. That means current ninth graders will have to pass the test next spring or retake it their junior and senior years until they pass...
...MCAS] is still in phases of development, and they still plan on using it as a measure of graduation," he says of the state Board of Education...
Like many others, Ward says making MCAS a graduation requirement punishes students for failures of the Commonwealth's education system...