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Cambridge scored 253rd out of 278 districts statewide on the 2005 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) 10th grade English exam. And it scored just slightly better—251st—on the MCAS 10th grade math exam...
...presentation at the Kennedy/Longfellow School last Wednesday, Cambridge Public School District Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn said Cambridge schools ranked 311th out of the 373 Massachusetts school districts—a list that includes both districts and individual charter schools—on the statewide MCAS exams required for high school graduation...
...while Fowler-Finn admits that MCAS scores need improvement, he disputes claims that the school district is underperforming and cost-inefficient...
High-minority and high-poverty schools also have substantially lower scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test, or MCAS...
...MCAS tests are designed to measure students’ progress in mastering the material outlined in the State Education Frameworks. The tests are not perfect, nor are they fatally flawed. The main problem has been the way that the test results have been used...