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...MCAS is everywhere...
Opponents of the test will rally Monday at the State House to present legislators with an anti-MCAS petition and protest the length and format of the exam, which they say narrows curriculum and turns schooling into an massive MCAS test-prep exercise...
Even Kaplan, the company that offers books and courses in preparing for standardized tests like the SAT, is getting in on the act; their Parent's Guide to the MCAS 4th Grade Tests sells...
What is 256 times 98? Can you do the multiplication without using a calculator? Two thirds of Massachusetts fourth-graders could not when they were asked this question on the statewide MCAS assessment test last year...
...failing and that the only way to fix the problem is to turn them into test-taking boot camps. Hopefully sooner or later, they will come to their senses, start listening to students like those in Arlington, and form a collective voice strong enough to bring down the MCAS...