More than 30 years ago, Massachusetts legislators passed a landmark education bill that established for the first time standardized state testing in schools. Those tests, collectively known as ...

Test your MCAS, PARCC knowledge. Following are sample mathematics questions from the Grade 8 version of the PARCC and MCAS tests. The state is in the process of ... Answer: D. 2.) ...

I am a longtime educator and I plan to vote “Yes” on Question 2, which would replace the MCAS test as a high school graduation requirement. Instead, students would need to demonstrate that ...

With a $250,000 ad buy earlier this week, the fight for the future of the MCAS has officially begun. ... If the test is “high-stakes” — as it is often described — so is the ballot question.

Massachusetts' Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted Tuesday to adopt a hybrid proficiency test that combines elements of the MCAS and a controversial online assessment know as PARCC ...

A week out from the Nov. 5 general election in which voters will decide whether to toss the state's MCAS graduation requirement, Massachusetts education officials continued to hold off on giving ...

Boston may be moving away from using MCAS exams to assess students in grades 3-8 in favor of a new computer-based test. Skip to main content. WBUR ... The two tests offer some key differences.

BOSTON (WHDH) - Proposed Massachusetts ballot questions over rent control and the MCAS test cleared a major hurdle Wednesday as part of a larger batch Read More Skip to content Boston News ...