THE STATE released its latest MCAS results on Tuesday, and the scores seem alarming. According to the Boston Globe, 61 percent of 10th graders statewide met or exceeded expectations on […]
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Latest MCAS scores are troubling
The state released its latest MCAS results on Tuesday, and the scores seem alarming. According to the Boston Globe, 61 percent of 10th graders statewide met or exceeded expectations on […]
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Teachers union president decries Trump and testing
BARBARA MADELONI, the president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, had a message last week for her union’s members in the wake of the presidential election: “let all of our students […]
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Massachusetts gets demographic boost, but still scores at top
Amidst all the debate about which annual standardized test to use in Massachusetts — and whether we are testing too much or attaching too many consequences to its outcomes — […]