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...weeks after the state released the results, the implications of Cambridge's dismal showing in last spring's MCAS tests are still sinking...
Students in grades 4, 8 and 10 take a battery of multiple-choice and written tests each spring in English, Mathematics, Science and Technology, and Social Studies. The tests are part of the Education Reform Act of 1993, which doubled state aid to education and established MCAS as a way of holding local school districts accountable for their students' performance...
...Taking MCAS Seriously...
...looming MCAS dilemma cannot be resolved merely by giving the vote to Cambridge adolescents. However, some other problems at CRLS might be. Students know what really goes on in school better than most administrators and school committee members. It is time to allow students proper representation on the school committee...
...school committee controls the broad agenda of the school's educational mission overall. Students should have some influence over that agenda. CRLS is facing a difficult and challenging time. After a comprehensive redesign that has caused morale among some veteran teachers to drop and nightmarish scheduling problems, the high MCAS failure rates were another blow to the institution. The huge number of students who boycotted the test is not the end of the story--among students who did take the exam, scores were lower than the year before in both math and English...