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...bigger problem is under-performance,” Nolan says. “I’m not a big MCAS freak,” she adds, referring to the oft-maligned Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System tests. “But what MCAS, the 1993 Education Reform Law, and the No Child Left Behind Act have done is make us start focusing on improving scores and closing the achievement...
...last school year, 65 percent of white 10th graders in Cambridge scored “proficient” or above on the MCAS English Language Arts exam, compared to only 30 percent of their black peers...
...regular-education student last fiscal year, about $5,000 more than the national average. According to school officials, those numbers have risen to over $16,000 for this fiscal year. But despite this spending, Cambridge placed 253 out of 278 districts statewide on the 2005 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) 10th grade English exam. And it scored just slightly better—at 251—on the MCAS 10th grade math exam.Nolan’s interest in the system as a parent led her to become involved with Cambridge United for Education (CUE), a group that addressed citywide...
...students in grades three through eight take the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exams in reading and English this week, Cambridge Public Schools (CPS)-+ officials expressed mixed opinions over the use of standardized tests to gauge student performance in the wake of last month’s SAT grading debacle. The College Board, which administers the SAT, revealed last month that over 4,400 tests had been misscored in October, one by 450 points. The Massachusetts Department of Education uses MCAS scores to determine whether schools are meeting annual benchmarks as defined by the No Child Left Behind Act, which...
...access for minority and low-income students, according to a study released by Harvard’s Civil Rights Project. The study criticized the state’s John and Abigail Adams Scholarship Program for determining eligibility solely on students’ performance on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessement System (MCAS) test. As a result, the program reaches fewer students in districts with low MCAS scores such as Cambridge, and it fails to take into account large scoring gaps across ethnic and economic groups, according to the Harvard study. Created in 2004 by Governor Mitt Romney, the Adams Scholarship Provides free...