On Nov. 5, Massachusetts voters will decide whether to keep the state’s two-decade-old state test graduation requirement. The ballot measure, Question 2, would repeal the need for students to pass the ...

REPORTER: STATE EDUCATION OFFICIALS POINTING TO THOSE RESULTS AND SAYING THAT THAT IS THE RESULT OF A LOSOFS LEARNING , BUT STILL MANY PARENTS ARE PUSHING FOR THE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO REINSTATE AND ...

The percentage of 10th graders in the Cape and Islands public school districts who met or exceeded expectations on the 2024 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System tests was slightly below the ...

By using just one assessment instrument that evaluated a narrow range of 20th-century skills, we missed an opportunity to assess the skills and knowledge that students need to live in the 21st century ...

FRAMINGHAM — While Framingham saw its student MCAS scores fall further behind from where they were before the pandemic, many surrounding communities saw improvement, according to data released by the ...

BROCKTON — The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released the 2023 MCAS results, showing only small gains — and quite a few declines — in scores within Brockton Public ...

HAVERHILL — Students in the city’s public schools are performing better in math, but lag behind in English, according to an analysis of Haverhill’s latest MCAS scores. Math scores improved at all nine ...

Taunton Public Schools saw improved performance on the MCAS test this year, with the percentage of students grades 3-8 who met or exceeded expectations increasing from 27% to 30% on the English test ...

BROCKTON — Last week, The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) released the results for the 2022 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), the annual state-wide ...

Mansfield continued this year to rank higher than the state average in all subjects on the 2017 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS). But the MCAS exam this year was quite different ...