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...three-part forum about the achievement gap and ways to close it in the district. The achievement gap, a nationally-seen disparity in the test scores of white and minority students, has been a problem in the Cambridge Public Schools system. On the 2005-2006 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test, only three percent of African American students scored in the advanced level on the 10th grade English language arts exam, while 30 percent of white students scored in this range. Only seven percent of African American students scored in the advanced level on the mathematics exam, while 42 percent...
...MCAS DRAWS PRAISE...
...tests administered under the oft-maligned Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) came in for some unexpected praise last week when a California research institute released a report comparing the tests to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a federal test used to create a national baseline...
...study singled out the MCAS for praise, saying that its results were highly consistent with the NAEP...
...between the NAEP and MCAS reading tests was small compared to other states. And more Bay State students actually passed the NAEP math test than the MCAS one—of the 12 states analyzed in the study, Massachusetts was the only one to employ a test shown to be harder than the national...