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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sullivan also says one of the newest and most controversial measures of the test is problematic: the requirement of having to pass the MCAS to graduate, which will first apply to the class...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MCAS Tests At Center of Debate | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

...Linda Neri, communications manager for the Massachusetts Coalition for Higher Standards, a public-interest group specializing in the issue of the MCAS, points to a piece of information she says many worried parents and teachers may not know: students who do not pass the test in the 10th grade can retake the test in the 11th and 12th grades...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MCAS Tests At Center of Debate | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

...State politicians used the results of the initial April testing--where 59 percent of the 1,800 prospective teachers failed to pass all three areas-- as campaign fodder, demanding higher standards from Massachusetts teachers...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omaalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Questions of Validity Surround Teacher Tests | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

They dropped a bombshell 10 days before thefirst April testing: they required prospectiveteachers to take--and pass--the exam to achievecertification...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omaalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Questions of Validity Surround Teacher Tests | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

...along with his scoring, Hill dished out four assists, with the last one marking the 571st of his career, moving him pass Tarik Campbell '94 into first place on the Harvard all-time assists list...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, | Title: Floor General Leads Crimson | 2/23/1999 | See Source »

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