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Cambridge scored notably below state averages on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test last spring, but the city’s beleaguered school system still has something to celebrate...
Nearly one quarter of all seniors—or about 70 students—at Cambridge’s high school, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS), will not graduate this year because they have yet to pass the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test, a high-stakes, state-wide standardized exam. The school committee has voted to issue certificates of completion to these seniors, allowing them to walk with their class at graduation before they spend the summer trying to pass the test...
...second candidate interviewed, Claudia L. Bach, is currently Superintendent of Schools in Andover, Mass., a small, mostly-affluent district near Boston which boasts high scores on the MCAS, the standardized test required of all Mass. high schoolers...
Cambridge typically falls among the worst in the state in MCAS scores...
...MCAS and the “standards-based” reform movement simply support the status quo: high standards represented by thought-provoking curriculum for the advantaged, low standards represented by the mindless memorization of soon-to-be forgotten facts for the disadvantaged. For us, that is—to borrow President Bush’s phrase—the real soft bigotry of low expectations...