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...MCAS requires students to write out answers and engage in complex problem-solving," she says. "The idea that it takes too much time is wrong. This is not wasted time. It gives students time to practice skills that are important...
Still, teachers say they worry that the time required to administer the test will detract from time devoted to school curriculum, as well as focusing the curriculum on the MCAS material...
Josie Patterson, a parent of two children in the Cambridge Public School system, a first grader at Cambridgeport School and a seventh grader at Graham and Parks School, draws a distinction between the usefulness of the MCAS on the level of the individual student and on the level of schools...
...think the MCAS helps the students? No. But I don't think that's its purpose. It helps the way schools are evaluated," she says...
...There are so many problems with individual schools that until school reform takes place, there is no true way to evaluate the success of individual schools. The MCAS can help," she says...