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Residents of Cambridge and four other Massachusetts towns will have the opportunity Nov. 7 to support a non-binding resolution stating that the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests should not become a statewide high school graduation requirement. We encourage voters to approve this resolution...
Swift said the state is also creating higher standards for students through standardized tests such as the MCAS, which all public school students must pass to graduate...
More than 100 10th-graders boycotted the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests--a state-mandated exam--last month, as well as dozens of fourth- and eighth-graders...
...merged school will use a standardized curriculum called Core Knowledge, produced by a national firm and tailored to specific MCAS standards, as well as the Literacy Collaborative and a technology initiative called NetSchools...
Wilfried Schmid (Opinion, "New Battles in the Math Wars," May 4) used student performance on a MCAS question--what is 256 x 98--as the basis to describe the ills of school mathematics programs and attempts at reform. Yet before we go too far with this, let's take a closer look...