More Alabama students are reading and doing math on grade level, and fewer are scoring at the lowest level, according to new ...

A proposed ‘limited use’ of MCAS scores for competency determination is having the Massachusetts teachers association sound the alarm, saying that it’s recycling a quote, “bad practice”.

Overall, five Taunton students received perfect scores on the MCAS ELA test and eight students received perfect scores on the MCAS math test.

“We are not going to put little kids at computers for practice tests,” he said. Math MCAS results for grades 3-5 featured 25 percent of students exceeding expectations, a 19 percent increase over the ...

In the decades following, the state climbed to the top of national education rankings. Advocates for the MCAS say the test was an integral part of the shift.

Teaching to the test and teaching test preparation strategies were emphasized more than any other subjects that my colleagues and I taught.

Question 2 on the Nov. 5 ballot, if passed, would eliminate the current practice requiring high school students to pass the 10th grade Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test in order ...

A vote yes on question two would remove the tenth-grade MCAS — a set of standardized tests assessing student performance in English language arts, mathematics, and science — as a statewide ...

Both the support and opposition of ballot Question 2, sat down with GBH News' Morning Edition to explain what eliminating MCAS as a graduation requirement could mean for Mass. high school students.

MCAS results for 2024 show a more mixed result than the positively trending 2023 results and remained lagging well behind pre-pandemic scores, state education officials said in an embargoed briefin… ...

Approximately 3,000 more 10th-grade students failed the MCAS exam in 2024 than in the year prior — a notable uptick sure to come under scrutiny as the fate of the standardized test as a high ...