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Cambridge school officials said the plan, which was developed jointly by Merseth at the GSE and administrators at CRLS, is targeted at students who had low scores on the battery of Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests last year, as well as students who simply want to take more classes...
...think it's much more intensive," said Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D'Alessandro. "There's going to be rigor in terms of helping students who did not do well on the MCAS...
...cited students' low scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System Test (MCAS) and concerns about the lack of Harvard involvement in local schools as primary motivations for the initiative. Last month, Cambridge mayor Anthony D. Galluccio called for Harvard and MIT to commit to helping area schools during his State of the City address...
Galluccio bemoaned the low scores of Cambridge students on standardized tests such as the MCAS, but said parents and students had to accept the controversial tests and work to improve scores...
This spring for the first time, a diploma will be on the line for sophomores taking MCAS. And next year, the eighth-graders taking the test will have taken it as fourth-graders--so their performance can be compared directly...