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Patterson emphasizes the dilemma many parents face in the MCAS issue...
...teacher-basher," she says. "It's not that I disapprove of the job teachers and principals are doing. It's just that there are some good teachers, and then there are some bad teachers. And the purpose of standardized testing [like MCAS] is to level the criteria...
...There is no perfect way to improve schools. Teachers and principals are not used to being held accountable, and the MCAS heightens the competitiveness of schools, especially in Cambridge," she says...
Mary Anne Hart, a parent of a kindergartner, second grader and eighth grader at the Agassiz School in Cambridge, also supports the MCAS...
Hart says she believes that the kind of curriculum framework that the MCAS is based on is essential to an education...